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Critical review of studies on the representation of architecture and use of the image in science and art

Issue 16 | January – December 2025

Evolving Drawings, Projects, and Surveys

CONTENTS

Direzione XY, Redazione XY

Editorial. A Necessary Adaptation

Franco Purini

Drawing as Soul and Life

Michele Emmer

Drawing Hyperspace. From Pencil to Computer Graphics

Fabio Quici

From Vitruvian firmitas to the Survival of Architecture in its Iconographic Testimonies: the Case of OMA’s Dance Theatre in The Hague

Laura Nunzia Ferlito, Graziano Testa

Schinkel’s Lehrbuch. A Resilient Form of Thought

Giulia Lazzaretto

Abstract Fragments: The Transgression of Language in the Representational Logics of Zaha Hadid

Hyun-Guk Ryu

Visualising Power in Pyongyang: Political Architecture from Juche to Green

Valentina Castagnolo, Anna Christiana Maiorano

Images of the Survey: Interpreting Architecture between the Perceived and the Inaccessible

Fabrizio Banfi, Elena Dellù, Francesca R. Paolillo, Diego Blanco

From Buried Time to the Resilient Image: the Neanderthal Man and the Lamalunga Cave

Francesca Gasparetto

Drawing for the Conservation of Works of Art: a Possible Evolution of its Language

Cesare Battelli, Giovanni Pirari

Imago Resiliens. Signs between the Visible and the Invisible in Artificial Imagination

Gabriele Casarano

From Drawing to the Sensitive Model: The Epistemology of Data in Digital Architectural Representation

XY 16 2025

The Competition for the Cover Image

Scientific Review

The drawing is part of a series dedicated to the future ruins of the most significant buildings in contemporary Rome. Although it is the ruin of a modern architecture, the scene is set in a landscape sensitively close to Piranesi’s Rome, even evoking its picturesque features, such as the Pinelli-esque chariot, a fragment of an ancient past or a distant future.
Marco Falsetti, Re-ruined Rome, 2025, ink on watercolor paper.