The restoration of Casa d’Annunzio in the drawings of Antonino Liberi (1921-1929)

• Main Author: Pasquale Tunzi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of L'Aquila 2015-01-01
• Series: Disegnare con
• Subjects: survey; restoration; drawing.
• Online Access: http://disegnarecon.univaq.it/ojs/index.php/disegnarecon/article/view/22

The desire of the poet Gabriele d’Annunzio to renew his<br />birthplace in Pescara with a ‘makeover’ operation, was<br />made in 1921 by his brother-in-law, the engineer Antonino<br />Liberi, designer of numerous works. Towards the old house, that needed extraordinary and rather urgent maintenance work, the engineer proposed a series of internal changes necessary to improve the livability<br />of the environments, but also two facade solutions<br />that would have radically changed the appearance.<br />This paper intends to address, rather than the planned<br />works on the house, the way to communicate the restoration<br />project engineer Liberi, considering the graphics, the representation scales, the design method. Supporting<br />documents are deposited in the Archives of the Italian<br />Vittoriale and the State Archive of Pescara.