La rappresentazione dell’architettura: sapere e saper fare

Abstract

The paper aims to analyze the characters of today's representation of architecture as a system of knowledge intimately related to know-how and its impact on teaching, The point of view proposed by the representation of architecture is interesting presenting a vast know how, with important repercussions, and, conversely, a theoretical apparatus of knowledge very poor and summarily formalized. This dissonance is a limitation of the discipline but also an opportunity for a revision of his theory and his teaching. This topic is faced in thepaper, exploiting the portraits of neuroscientific research. The issues related to the introductionof the computing techniques in the architectural representation processes are then examined. These information techniques leading to a progressive dematerialization and virtualization of the representation process, entail the need for a global redefinition of both the working hypotheses, the theoretical postulates, the operating methods, and their teaching. . Finally, we tried to reconstruct a unitary framework arising from the analysis of these topics with the aim to offer ideas for both a recoding of the disciplinary system (knowledge and know-how), and for a teaching able to capture and transmit characters and implications.