Ricerche sulle architetture dell’acqua in Sardegna / Researches on water-related architecture in Sardinia

CADINU, MARCO

2015-01-01

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Abstract

Works of art and architecture connected with the use of water have been acknowledged as one of the most important categories in cultural heritage. However, this only happens if they have a high-quality artistic content or are attributed to a master of the past, therefore firmly present in collective imagination and literature. In Sardinia – as in many Italian and European regions – only a few dozen examples correspond to this description. There are, instead, thousands of other examples of water-related architecture, the result of significant planning processes and investments, which offer equally useful interpretations of the cultural and historical conditions of each place. Their inclusion in a systematic interpretation frame points out new details on the different architectural periods, the diffusion of typological and stylistic solutions, the adhesion to or distance from models which had become popular in large urban centres.