Drawing Hyperspace. From Pencil to Computer Graphics
In 1885, E.A. Abbott published Flatland in Great Britain, a book destined to be widely read beyond the English-speaking world. It tells the adventures of a square who discovers dimensions beyond the third Euclidean dimension. The writer, a mathematics professor, is aware that, in those years, mathematicians were becoming interested in geometric figures beyond three dimensions. Among […]
Drawing as Soul and Life
The text traces the close friendship between Franco Purini and Roberto de Rubertis, which developed between the Valle Giulia Faculty of Architecture and the Faculty of Engineering in Perugia; a bond built on a shared passion for architecture and drawing, considered a ‘conceptual place’ that defines a set of fundamental relationships in design and construction.
Imago Resiliens. Signs Between the Visible and the Invisible in Artificial Imagination
In the age of artificial imagination, drawing reveals itself as an organism undergoing metamorphosis. Not a singular, unique authorial gesture, but a process that creates a space of interrelation between human and machine, involving both in an evolutionary and co-evolutionary movement, from which an image emerges that always exceeds the author’s semantic intention. The project, […]
From Drawing to the Sensitive Model: The Epistemology of Data in Digital Architectural and Urban Representation
Architectural representation cannot be reduced to a mere device for translating reality; it is a cognitive practice that selects, orders, and renders possible worlds operative. Digitalization alters its epistemic regime, shifting the focus from the sign to informational relations: the line becomes data, the image turns into process, and drawing migrates into a computational environment […]