Architetture per i parchi termali. Fonti antiche e modelli d’invenzione nella cultura Beaux-Arts dell’Ottocento

Starting from the three volumes, the outcome of the 1981 international conference held in San Pellegrino Terme and curated by Rossana Bossaglia, the bibliography on thermal architectures has been enriched with numerous titles. The so‐called sacred sites of the hygienic‐worldly‐liter‐ ary topography of Europe have been the subject of a fruitful harvest of studies, both mono‐ graphic and wide‐ranging. The research of Lise Grenier, Dominque Jarassé, Pierre Saddy, and others, concerning France, paved the way for various investigations into thermal locations, both well‐known and less known, in the early 1980s. Simultaneously with the 􏰁lourishing of research on villes d’eaux, the history of architectural education was also evolving. For the Beaux‐Arts culture, recently the subject of precise investigation, the focus was on multiple theoretical para‐ digms in project creation, the atelier system, learning spaces, as well as teaching methods and tools. However, despite the signi􏰁icant studies over time on both historiographical fronts, it seems that there have been no further in‐depth explorations into the sources and reference models for water cure establishments. The theme of thermal architectures has been considered over the long term merely as one of the many sujets experiential in academic programs. For this reason, it does not seem unreasonable to assert that it is necessary to look, once again, at education in schools and how lessons on building composition were taught, attempting to intertwine per‐ spectives. On one side, focusing on the training of architects, and on the other, examining the structures that would emerge in the thermal parks built during the nineteenth century.