Mots-clés
reconstruction / monuments / cultural heritage / Islamic cultures / damage / restoration / training / religions / ethics / management / economic aspects / social aspects / effects of deterioration / public awareness / education / war / communities / destruction of cultural heritage / reconciliation / post-war situation
Résumé en anglais
ICOR 179; “Conservation and enhancement of the architectural and monumental heritage after the1992-95 Bosnia war.” Bosnia and Herzegovina have been part of Ottoman Empire for some ten centuries,
and the countries are covered with monuments and objects of Islamic inheritance. During the 1992-95terrible war, some 1185 mosques, 335 Islamic monuments, and thousands of private houses have been
damaged or destroyed, and populations suffered enormously.The project carried out in autumn 2002, after Bosnia war, in Italy, by Trieste University: Faculty of
Architecture in the framework of the "UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage” with the objective of developinga more friendly relationship between populations of Bosnia, Serbia and Kossowo through practical and
theoretical workshops aiming to restore religious monuments, damaged in the war.During the project Italian teachers organized: three training seminars in Trieste University and workshops in
Bosnia, with the collaboration of the University of Sarajevo. With the objective of repairing some mosquesand religious monuments, they also made some visits in Italian towns, to study restored monuments, namely
in IV century Basilica in Aquileia. The objective was to make students attend to a technical and scientificprogramme in order to overcome political feelings.
After theoretical Seminars organised in Trieste and Sarajevo Universities a practical workshops was carriedout in a Bosnia village. In Prusac where a mosque was studied in depth and restored, Italian professors
pointed out that the most important questions was to respect pre-existing buildings in rehabilitation and adaptthem to nowadays situation.
Considering that the most important problem was not technical but ethical, therefore the workshop focused
the study of old structure of mosques and other religious buildings; this method of pointing out thetraditional building methods of Islam buildings and of sharing modern restoration techniques together,
helped to overcome the severe pains and problems they suffered during the Bosnia war and to create aconstructive atmosphere between the participants.