Andrea Bruno Opere e progetti

The monograph traces the broad and highly articulated professional achievement of the architect Andrea Bruno of Turin, ranging from his first projects in the sixties the latest works in the new millennium, highlighting the most significant achievements of his decades-long activity. From the start, Andrea Bruno was able to work between conservation and design, seeking a synchrony and coexistence between the memories of the past, the present and the utopia of the future. His approach to the work has consciously moved beyond the academic discipline of restoration, driven by a critical and theoretical reflection in which the historical heritage, far from being the object of blind deference, deserves to be redeveloped, enjoyed and even changed. In Andrea Bruno’s work, transformation is therefore understood as the only guarantee of the preservation of memories through architecture. Among his most famous and significant works is the restoration of the Castello di Rivoli and its Manica Lunga (1978-2000). Andrea Bruno was a professor of Architectural Restoration for a long period, initially at the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic of Turin, where he graduated in 1956, and since 1991 at both the Polytechnic of Milan and the Catholic University of Leuven. Since the 1970s, he has distinguished himself internationally as a consultant for UNESCO for the protection of the monumental heritage of the Middle and Far East.