Approaches and methods of conservation of Roman monuments in Pula within the urban modernization process of the 19th and 20th centuries

Jurcan, Emil (author), Zorec, Maruša (mentor), Skansi, Luka (comentor), Vodopivec, Aleš (comentor)

The topic of the doctoral dissertation is the approaches and methods of architectural conservation of Roman monuments in the city of Pula in the 19th and 20th centuries. The starting point of the research is that the ancient monuments in Pula, through their architectural interventions, were crucial for the formation of the modern city, and that their role is inseparable from the modernisation processes that were taking place in Europe at that time. Since the Roman ruins had already gained the status of historic monuments managed by the public administration in the early 19th century, their unquestionable status as public goods became the starting point for the expansion of the public domain throughout modern society. Architecture, as a specific public art, was the technique of this expansion, firstly through the architectural conservation of the monument itself, secondly through the architectural design of the public space around the monument, and thirdly as urban planning within which the influence of the ancient heritage spread throughout the entire spatial structure of the public sphere. Although these three processes - conservation, landscape design and urban planning - have often been disciplinarily separated throughout history, the thesis of this research is that these three activities are inseparable, and that the importance of architecture as a formal articulation of the public holds them together.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Roman monuments, modernity, architectural conservation, restoration, ruins, Pula, urban design
• Work type: Doctoral dissertation
• Typology: 2.08 - Doctoral Dissertation
• Organization: FA - Faculty of Architecture
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: E. Jurcan
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: 236 str.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-172745
• COBISS.SI-ID: 255818243
• Publication date in RUL: 11.09.2025

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Pristopi in metode ohranjanja rimskih spomenikov v Pulju znotraj procesa urbane modernizacije 19. in 20. stoletja

Abstract

Tema doktorske disertacije so pristopi in metode konserviranja rimskih spomenikov v Pulju v 19. in 20. stoletju. Raziskava izhaja iz tega, da so bili antični spomeniki v Pulju zaradi arhitekturnih posegov vanje ključni za oblikovanje modernega mesta in da je njihova vloga neločljiva od procesov modernizacije, ki so se takrat odvijali po Evropi. Ker so rimske ruševine že v zgodnjem 19. stoletju pridobile status zgodovinskih spomenikov, za katere skrbi javna uprava, je njihov nedvomni status javnih dobrin postal izhodišče za širitev javne domene skozi vse obdobje moderne družbe. Arhitektura je kot specifična javna umetnost predstavljala tehniko te širitve, prvič, prek arhitekturnega konserviranja spomenika samega, drugič, prek arhitekturnega oblikovanja javnega prostora okoli spomenika in, tretjič, kot urbanistično načrtovanje, znotraj katerega se je vpliv antične dediščine razširil skozi celotno prostorsko strukturo javne sfere. Čeprav so bili ti trije procesi – konserviranje, krajinsko oblikovanje in urbanistično načrtovanje – skozi zgodovino pogosto disciplinarno ločeni, je teza te raziskave, da so te tri dejavnosti neločljive in da jih drži skupaj pomembnost arhitekture kot formalnega izraza javnega.

• Keywords: rimski spomeniki, modernost, arhitekturno konservatorstvo, prenova, ruševine, Pulj, urbanistično oblikovanje