Il disegno imperfetto. Il processo analitico-visuale per il progetto

A designer can summarize a project through a series of drawings made by hand? A project should look like the images that are supposed to really want it to represent? How to keep alive the generating concept through the process without falling in the intoxication of the storytelling? The new capabilities of digital graphics promised to make architecture an "exact science", finally overcoming the imperfect drawing, the applied art made by hand and passed through a slow and long apprenticeship; fortunately this did not happen while scholars say that we are already experiencing "the era of post-digital". Drawing is a visual-analytic process that requires specific knowledge and doctrinal references to theoretical-methodological and methodological-operational issues. In each period drawing tools have been central to characterize the processes of design and construction and have contributed to the definition of the working methods of work embodying both the creative and generative phase and the final prototyping and construction. The digital design process has reached a level of maturity that makes it out of the simple practice technique connoting as an analytical tool for the evolution of thought; It is less rigid than the "automatic drawing " of a few years ago and, paradoxically, can express a personal vision again through the production of "hybrid representations". The dominant culture of the so-called "digital natives" today follows the social request of modernization (but not always progress) but it is not the only possible form for visual thinking, in many cases, the process is still handmade, there are alternatives, the design takes advantage of the imperfections of the hand, the use of artistic techniques fueling the thin tradition that runs between craft and "industry", the root of the Italian genius of the Renaissance and of the most recent Made in Italy.