Three-Dimensional Nature of Architecture and Its Representation: A Suspension Bridge Between the Interpretations of Italian Treatise Writers of the Sixteenth Century and the Processing Methods of the Contemporary Era

The paper is intended to deepen a specific theme, which affects almost uninterrupted continuity the architectural culture, related to the relationship between three-dimensional nature of architecture and its representation; the topic is developed through critical reflections on the relationship between the concept of spatial designed conformations and the expressive forms of figuration drawn, figured as interpretations qualified by distinctive knowledge values. We try to answer to the following questions: which products can be compared with the representative transcriptions of the past? Is it possible to define some common elements or the differences are too substantial to evoke an unlikely continuity?