La lezione di Ruskin e il contributo di Boni. Dalla sublimità parassitaria alla gestione dinamica delle nature archeologiche

The article is drafted combining the two diverse disciplinary approaches of the authors, coming, respectively, from the field of landscape architecture and from that of restoration and heritage’s preservation. The manifold attitude and the integrated approach experimented by John Ruskin artist and writer in reading Nature generated within his work a powerful device in order to build a dynamic and systemic vision of natural phenomena, anticipating the richness and the complexity of modern ecological thinking. Moreover, Ruskin’s lesson on the ethical and aesthetic value of ruins and the importance given to the work of vegetation in ruderal contexts can be considered part of a more ambitious and visionary attitude, linked to a landscape and place-making oriented dimension. Both these lines of research will significantly influence the thinking of Giacomo Boni, a Venetian architect and archaeologist, who worked in Roman archaeological sites between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the following century. Following this connections, the contribute proposes an exploration of Ruskin’s legacy in approaching and designing archaeological ambits with the aim of an active conservation, particularly considering the integrated relationships between architecture and vegetation.