Università Roma Tre

Analyses of the relationship between visual languages and representation techniques, architecture and graphic design. History analyses of images of the XXth century. Billboards and prime-times as inputs to graphic applications. Applications of manual drawings and designs done by using various different softwares both raster and vectorial as Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.

AAVV., ARCHITETTURA E RAPPRESENTAZIONE. ALCUNE QUESTIONI, KAPPA, ROMA 2015 (a cura di Ghisi Grütter)
GHISI GRÜTTER, DISEGNO E IMMAGINE TRA COMUNICAZIONE E RAPPRESENTAZIONE, KAPPA, ROMA 2006;

Located in the first year of the Degree Course in Architectural Design, the course aims to
participate, through the representation of architecture and the environment to the development of
following skills:
• conceive and use representation as a tool for exploration, verification and
communication of the project idea and its realization;
• use the different techniques and the different representation tools depending on the
theoretical and practical reflections on the questions raised by the architecture analyzed.
General issues
1. Analysis and transcription of architectural projects of some architects, through the use of different
representation techniques
2. Communication of the study process of an architectural work, in its analytical phase and of
return.
Specific topics
In order to develop the themes indicated above, the following topics will be addressed:
1. Evolution of the project design from the art of nineteenth century construction to the period
contemporary
2. decompose the architecture. The graphical analysis for the knowledge of the architectural work.
3. The declinations of the design project for architecture: techniques and graphic models in the
poetics of some masters
4. techniques for the representation of the analysis and project concept
5. Digital design as a form of exploration and verification of spatial configurations
in two-dimensional and three-dimensional areas
6. Perspective control and digital space
7. 3D modeling: practical theoretical concepts for a conscious use of 3d modeling programs
8. Output techniques: static rendering
9. Output techniques: dynamic rendering
10. On the design of contemporary architects and in particular the study of the graphic production of Francesco CelliniGraphic
The themes will be carried out through the analysis and re-design of unrealized architectural projects
of Francesco Cellini.
Work phases / methods
We will proceed to a first graphic analysis by hand (plastic drawings and models) to understand
compositional logic, constituent elements and hypothesized spatial configurations. Then, a
3D digital model and we will proceed with the elaboration of images and animations to display the information gathered. The last phase will be dedicated to communication with video processing.

The material will be indicated by the teacher during the lessons.

Albisinni, P., Chiavoni, E., De Carlo, L. (a cura di). Verso un disegno “integrato”. La tradizione del
disegno nell’immagine digitale. Roma: Gangemi Editore, 2010.
Albisinni P., De Carlo L. (a cura di). Architettura, disegno, modello. Roma: Gangemi Editore, 2011.
Cellini, F., Nota: Rappresentazione, Costruzione, Conoscenza, in Rappresentazione e Architettura. Linguaggi per il rilievo ed il disegno di G. Testa e A. De Sanctis, Roma: Gangemi Editore, 2003.

Cellini, F., Sul talento e sul gesto, in AAVV, Disegno e conoscenza. Contributi per la storia e l’architettura, Roma: Aracne editrice, 2006 (a cura di Rodolfo Strollo), pp. 93/104.

Cellini, F. Il significato dei disegni di Ridolfi e Frankl, in Mario Ridolfi. Manuale delle tecniche tradizionali del costruire. Il ciclo delle marmore, Milano 1997.
Docci, E., Chiavoni, M. Saper leggere l’architettura, Roma: Laterza, 2017

The course reviews the relationships between figurative languages and representational techniques, the form-expression, and the iconic communication.

AAVV., ARCHITETTURA E RAPPRESENTAZIONE. ALCUNE QUESTIONI, KAPPA, ROMA 2015 (a cura di Ghisi Grütter)
GHISI GRÜTTER, DISEGNO E IMMAGINE TRA COMUNICAZIONE E RAPPRESENTAZIONE, KAPPA, ROMA 2006;

Located in the first year of the Degree Course in Architectural Design, the course aims to
participate, through the representation of architecture and the environment to the development of
following skills:
• conceive and use representation as a tool for exploration, verification and
communication of the project idea and its realization;
• use the different techniques and the different representation tools depending on the
theoretical and practical reflections on the questions raised by the architecture analyzed.
General issues
1. Analysis and transcription of architectural projects of some architects, through the use of different
representation techniques
2. Communication of the study process of an architectural work, in its analytical phase and of
return.
Specific topics
In order to develop the themes indicated above, the following topics will be addressed:
1. Evolution of the project design from the art of nineteenth century construction to the period
contemporary
2. decompose the architecture. The graphical analysis for the knowledge of the architectural work.
3. The declinations of the design project for architecture: techniques and graphic models in the
poetics of some masters
4. Graphic techniques for the representation of the analysis and project concept
5. Digital design as a form of exploration and verification of spatial configurations
in two-dimensional and three-dimensional areas
6. Perspective control and digital space
7. 3D modeling: practical theoretical concepts for a conscious use of 3d modeling programs
8. Output techniques: static rendering
9. Output techniques: dynamic rendering
10. On the design of Francesco Cellini

The themes will be carried out through the analysis and re-design of unrealized architectural projects
of Francesco Cellini
Work phases / methods
We will proceed to a first graphic analysis by hand (plastic drawings and models) to understand
compositional logic, constituent elements and hypothesized spatial configurations. Then, a 3D digital model and we will proceed with the elaboration of images and animations to display the information gathered. The last phase will be dedicated to communication with video processing.

The material will be indicated by the teacher during the lessons.

Albisinni, P., Chiavoni, E., De Carlo, L. (a cura di). Verso un disegno “integrato”. La tradizione del
disegno nell’immagine digitale. Roma: Gangemi Editore, 2010.
Albisinni P., De Carlo L. (a cura di). Architettura, disegno, modello. Roma: Gangemi Editore, 2011.
Cellini, F., Nota: Rappresentazione, Costruzione, Conoscenza, in Rappresentazione e Architettura. Linguaggi per il rilievo ed il disegno di G. Testa e A. De Sanctis, Roma: Gangemi Editore, 2003.

Cellini, F., Sul talento e sul gesto, in AAVV, Disegno e conoscenza. Contributi per la storia e l’architettura, Roma: Aracne editrice, 2006 (a cura di Rodolfo Strollo), pp. 93/104.

Cellini, F. Il significato dei disegni di Ridolfi e Frankl, in Mario Ridolfi. Manuale delle tecniche tradizionali del costruire. Il ciclo delle marmore, Milano 1997.
Docci, E., Chiavoni, M. Saper leggere l’architettura, Roma: Laterza, 2017