Features and conservation issues of stone houses in the inland Abruzzo

With a gradual realisation that typological study could not automatically resolve the problems of integrating contemporary construction into historical towns, a new interest in rural architecture arose from the point of view of conservation. Thus at the same time new tools for investigating ancient structures were created, particularly from an archaeological perspective, and from a special interest in the technical components of the buildings. The same interest in the material realities of such buildings encouraged analysis oriented in one sense toward the comprehension of existing building (De Minicis & Guidoni 2001) and in another into its conservation and maintenance (Musso & Franco 2000).