L'opera di Franco Minissi: significazione e spazializzazione del frammento

The theme of the "fragment", both its meaning and its spatialization, still remains a hotly debated topic in the contemporary debate involving both the disciplines of restoration and architecture. As articles n.6 and n.7 of Carta di Venezia (1964) state: “the conservation of a monument implies its environmental conservation (…) and, therefore, the monument cannot be separated from the history of which it is a witness, nor from the environment in which it is located”. In this sense, regarding the theme of the project for the protection and valorisation of heritage, we consider the concept formulated by George Simmel to be fundamental: according to Simmel, "unity" and "fragment" are symbiotically linked, since from the part it is possible to deduce that whole whose form is closely connected to the space and time that created it. The essay intends to investigate the work of Franco Minissi, starting from the premises of Carta di Venezia, still valid in the discipline of contemporary restoration, with attention to the case of the Eraclea Minoa theatre in Sicily.