La Permanenza in Architettura. Progetto, Costruzione, Gestione

The word permanence, when related to architecture, means maintaining and assurance of technical, functional and symbolic values of buildings during the time; it denotes a specific category of service life.
At operational level, it also refers to service life planning and to management of physical and functional obsolescence; an overriding action whose control takes on a strategic value in order to project construction in itself.
Today, it is more and more often contrasted the idea of permanence besides that of temporariness: two paradigms that, in their opposition, concern and, owing to this, persuade us to investigate important matters related to technical and construction politics, with meaningful consequences on other fields too, as well as economy and, above all, environmental politics.
In other words, it is right that service life planning of buildings comes more and more abreast of need of a more rational use of available resources.
On such theme, the work proposes some notes about historical, terminological and problematic background and, last of all, on some typically operational issues.