Doppio, Ri-Produzione: Tecnologie digitali per il Progetto di Architettura

Abstract

The survey of architecture, as it has been used for several of centuries, no longer exists. The earliest documentary proofs of architectural surveying activities are the drawings of Roman architecture made by several Renaissance masters: the wonderful sketches of architectural elements of Antiquity, in orthogonal projections and in oblique axonometry, which Palladio used to record measurements, illustrate well the practice of traditional surveying. Digital surveys, carried out with laser scanners and SfM photogrammetric techniques, lead today to the construction of digital 'copies' of the visible surfaces of the surveyed building or site, thus recalling a long-debated theme in the visual arts and in architectural drawing: the theme of mimesis, of the copy, of the reproduction. In a short and illuminating essay written by Vittorio Ugo, the problem of the relationship between architectural drawing and mimesis is framed with unparalleled clarity.