THE REASONS OF THE NEED OF CONSERVATION OF ASSETS, PLACES AND CULTURAL IDENTITIES OF THE PEOPLES IN THE THOUGHTS OF PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

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Abstract

The professional activity of Pier Paolo Passolini and the main approaches and topical issues of conservation of monuments is discussed in the article. In Italy, after the liberation from Nazifascist regime, and especially between the mid '50s and early '60s, there was a great industrial and economic development that has taken the name of "economic boom". In those years, a great source of speculation was made at the expense of the land and the historic centers with the demolition of entire historical areas, construction of new buildings of low architectural, structural and material quality with resulting in disfigurement of the environment in the name of progress and economic well-being. Armenia after independence from the former Soviet Union and after a period of dramatic economic crisis, in recent years has been experiencing a phenomenon of "progress" similar to that lived in Italy after the Second World War. Armenia is, in its way, and with all the contradictions typical of this condition, experiencing its "economic boom" and committing the same mistakes made in Italy about fifty years ago.