Architectural Survey During an Online Semester. An Italian Experimentation

The contribution describes the didactic experience of teaching the basic techniques of architectural survey during the spring semester of academic year 2020/2021, held online due to the pandemic. The context is the Italian one of Politecnico di Torino, first year bachelor in architecture. This experience is part of a wider educational proposal which finds its applications within the Architectural Drawing and Survey Laboratory (held by Authors both in Italian and in English). To introduce students to a more complex object and with the feared and then real possibility to be forced to online teaching during the spring semester, we designed a new activity of survey that could be followed and elaborated ‘indirectly’ online and not on-site. We had to design their shooting and to evaluate how to communicate simple procedures mediated by a camera. We have been doing this experience with our students in the past spring semester and now we can critically analyse our didactic implementation of pre-set materials.