Afterword. «XY» thirty years later
Architectural drawing as simulation of the construction process
This new digital season of our magazine opens up in a moment of big changes, so big that they make us think of a veritable revolution for Architecture. On the educational front we register a gradually increasing, though late, understanding of the need of a radical renewal of our teachings, in search of a better […]
Environmental illusions. The use of perspective in the Studiolo di Guidobaldo da Montefeltro in Gubbio
Created a few years after the Urbino Studiolo (1473–1476), the Gubbio Studiolo (1479–1482), also commissioned by Duke Federico da Montefeltro and now at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, differs from its predecessor in many ways, with a less public, more intimate choice of iconography, but the rooms also share a key similarity in their […]
For history of scientific illustration. The case of the People’s Zoological Atlas by dr. Giovanni Boschi
In this article, having at my disposal an original copy of People’s Zoological Atlas by dr. Giovanni Boschi, I want to comment on the epochal singularity of a culture that, at a time when it was beginning to make its own the achievements of a new scientific knowledge and the new status that followed, however, […]
Conservation and sharing on the internet site and the digital archives of the Civic Museum of Rovereto Foundation
At the beginning of the Eighties the Civic Museum of Rovereto Foundation started digitalizing and creating a website of the patrimony of data conserved and produced in the various sections. Over time a complex, but well structured architecture has been built, which enables precise research to be carried out using also thematic areas and geographical […]
Graphic Intelligence
In this paper is presented and discussed the hypothesis of a particular form of intelligence, in the context of the theories on the multiple intelligences: the “graphic intelligence”, intended as the capacity to use the drawing skills and, more generally, the ability to integrate the use of eye, mind and hand to solve problems and […]
Puzzles of vision and art. Are we all synaesthetes?
The meaningful appearances of natural forms, intrinsically provided with meaning, are primary ecological facts for humans and non–human living beings. Only in recent years, however, perception studies have developed research pointing to the qualitative, and multimodal aspects of the experience. Specifically, the debate is now moving to the field of cross–modality, studying the connections between […]
Making visible. Learning from sciences and arts
In recent decades the practice of architectural drawing has further extended the use – often reckless – of images produced by naively evoke the visual effect of the forms. The widespread distribution of rendering software, in hindsight, has resulted to promote a use of “fake photographs”, rather than by “real drawings”. The figurative techniques that […]
The image as a mind tool
In last fifty years technology has made it incredibly easy to produce, edit and distribute still images and videos. We live submerged by a continuous flow of images and it is impossible to overestimate their importance in today’s society. Movies, animations, drawings and photographs are used primarily to communicate, but they also represent an instrument […]
Editorial. The right idea at the right time
In his editorial, Vito Cardone places the XYdigitale project within a broader international debate on visual culture and the role of images in the construction of knowledge. Drawing on Klaus Hentschel’s volume Visual Cultures in Science and Technology, the text reflects on the importance of visual representations in science, technology, art, architecture and knowledge processes. […]