Pursuit of style: the importance of historical, archivistic and treatise heritage.

Today we live in an era in which globalization has flattened the architecture to few stereotypes, dictated by few Archistar, unfortunately leaving little room for local identities, which for centuries have characterized not only the types of buildings and construction techniques, but also a current of treatises that revealed methodologies and practical tips to build. It is often forgotten that, apart from the tangible element of built architecture, there is an important historical heritage that helps us to know deep within that same architecture, analyze it, understand it, and store it in last: the historical treatises, real encyclopedias of good building practice, cataloging and presenting the information necessary for a construction site in a workmanlike manner. To each historical period are associated techniques and designs, so the good restorer must first be aware of the treatises most common in the historical reference period and then know how to approach the historical heritage: knowing even before investigating it with technological equipment. A case of study, taken as an example, is inspired by the Baroque era treaties by Rondelet to Breymann, by Valadier to Rusconi and even up to Vitruvius; from their boards and writings has been inspired to understand how a building could be under the formal aspect, imagining how to build it, and dreaming about a representation typologic theme.