Archivi e rappresentazione. Una proposta di indagine

Abstract

This study analyses an architectural project contained in the Benfratello Donation, part of the Scienti!c Collections of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Palermo, which preserves a heritage of immense artistic and historical documentary value. Thee Donation contains the archives and the library of Salvatore Benfratello and consists of about thirty projects and as many series on various subjects, for a total of just over four hundred drawings. "e analysis of the unrealised project of the Palazzo per la Sede delle Corporazioni is a small part of the knowledge of a possible image of Palermo, devastated by the vicious destruction of time.