The interest for archaeological ruins arises periodically ín the course of history and it expresses ít self through a continuous altemating of attitude towards the "ancient": approaching and moving away, memory and forgetfulness, continuity and discontinuity; a condition that makes the "care forthe ruins" a distinguishing feature in the Westem-Mediterranean culture and an essential action that belongs to our identity. Nowadays is possible to see that the desire ofhaving knowledge of the past is growíng up in the society but frequently the way of answering to thís requírement ís made of distorted devices of historical remembrance that ifon one hand they demonstrate the socio-cultural momentous of the "ancient", on the other hand they denounce a new problem in the relationship between arcaheologyand architecture: the spectacular it yofthe archaeological ruins and their mass consumption. In thís sítuation, ís necessary to know what does this "take care or mean and how architectural discipline and research can help to answer to this question, beginning from the contemporary socio-cultural conditions. The subject of this PhD thesis is the analysis of the relationships between archaeological ruins and project of archítecture in their complex im plications on the construction of contemporary landscape. Beginning with the definition of "significance" and "value" for the ruins, the thesis investigates the reasons, needs and standards of interventions in archaeological contexts, with relation to the sites' extent and to the varíable cultural factors of the contemporary society and environment. The thesis is made up of two parts: the first (Pfchaeology and Architecture) reconstructs and analyzes the disciplinary territory of architecture in its relationship with archaeology and with restorations' theories, referring to the main topics linked to the dichotomy of ancient/modem, to the relationship with context (urban and landscape) and to the role of history as a cultural heritage; then, it joins a re-reading of the limits about the project's dimension in terms of "aesthetical experience" not restricted to an old object contemplation and not distorted by the drifting of a formal self-referentiality. In the second part (The Transformations of Archaeologícal Landscape) the thesís studies the contemporary desígn ín archaeological contexts in its aesthetic an ethic aspects, examinating the dialogical methods of historícal and social interaction, the real needs and the special-temporal conditions of the context. Starting from coding the elements that could define a new system of values, the thesis outlines the features of a plausible path for the project through the definition of new interpretation statements for the principies of "ruin", "memory", "identity", "dialogy" that in a multidisciplinary point of view constitutes the basis for the critical analysis of many study-cases in a Mediterranean-European ambit. The thesis leads the analysís to go beyond the epistemological interpretation of the project as a "transformation", retríeving the concept of "interpretation" in a gadamerian sense and demonstrating that the aesthetic value of an architectural (and landscape) project is linked to its dialogical dimension that, before being a strategy of ethical acceptance, is a condition that naturally and specifically belongs to the stratified landscape, and in this sense becomes "archaeological", immanent in the nature of the place.
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