Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la città metropolitana di Venezia

Tutela dell’architettura contemporanea

Procedure ed esempi nella prassi della Soprintendenza di Venezia

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Abstract

This research is focused on the experience of the Soprintendenza with the legal procedures that allow to protect contemporary architecture according to the Heritage Protection Law, n. 42/2004, or to the Author’s Rights Law, n. 633/1941. The examples cited, peculiar cases related to minor local history, illustrate the Offices of the Adriatic Society for Electricity (SADE) in the 1950s (Offices of the Volpi Electric Plant in Marghera, Offices in rio Novo), the Pacinotti Technical High School with a complex iconographic program of inner decoration, a hotel extension in Nordic style at Quattro Fontane in Lido, the design of the Excelsior hotel in Lido, in the years 1964-68, the mosaics in the Church of Madonna del Divino Amore in Chioggia, the Cube of Bazzera at the AGIP gas station. The last example are the Vatican Chapels, for which an Author’s Right Protection was awarded.


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Submitted: July 10, 2025 | Published Dec. 17, 2025 | Language: it

Keywords Ignazio Gardella • Author’s rights protection for architecture • Romualdo Scarpa, Ezio Rizzettto, Mario Dinon • Costantino Dardi Vatican Chapels • Hotel design sixties • Design of the 1950s • Novecento • Twentieth century • Industrial heritage • Giuseppe Mignozzi • Legal aspects of heritage protection • SADE • Venetian contemporary mosaics • Contemporary heritage protection

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