Knowledge and trasmision of intangible Heritage: Raimondo D'Aronco's drawings and architecture for Turin International Exhibition of 1902

With the industrial revolution every state feels the need to make known to the general public new products and technologies to capture the market and to be relevant at the international level.In this environment the Universal Exhibitions are developed, real display of power commercial and prestige technical and artistic, which assume the function of showcase for new ideas and new ways of thinking about the relationship between art, crafts and industry.In the fervent atmosphere of Turin between nineteenth and twentieth centuries were held National Expositions of 1884 and 1898, the first International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art of 1902 and the great International Exhibition of 1911.Object of the present research is the Exhibition of 1902 that had international openness; the theme of the decorative art including all the products of industry, from bricks to fabrics, but also complete entity environmental, projects of buildings and urban accommodation.The competition for the construction of the exhibition halls was won by Raimondo D'Aronco one of the leading exponents of Art Nouveau architecture in Italy; of these architectures today there is nothing but the drawings and papers written by him, accompanied by sketches of details and comments. The study of the drawings of D'Aronco helped deepen the figure and work of this great architect in relation to one of the largest International Exhibitions of the early twentieth century.