The course will provide the basics of visual perception and sign language, aimed at understanding the communicative, expressive, aesthetic and cultural meanings that every image has. For this purpose, the course will provide the basics of the historical evolution of architectural representation. The modern digital representation techniques will be introduced also and experimented through the interpretation and the graphical communication of an example of modern or contemporary architecture, considering also the cultural references and the architectural language of its designer, the technological solutions, etc..
The course aims also at providing an overview of the modern techniques of architectural survey, by means of a practical survey experience of a historical architecture.