Cities’ and Landscapes’ Graphic Language

Dear Colleagues,

In this complex and difficult historical period, the role of architects and artists is fundamental in defining and in awareness of the narration of cities and landscapes, urban and otherwise, for a better future.

The choice of the theme is linked to the conception of the city and landscapes as cultural documents that can teach us to understand the past and the future. Each city and landscape can therefore be considered a cultural document.

Document understood in its broadest literal meaning includes any means, especially graphic, that proves the existence of a fact, the accuracy or truth of an assertion, and any material object that can be used for study, research, for consultation, either in its original or reproduced state or written, work or any other testimony that illustrates and makes known the political, literary, artistic history, ideas, and customs of a people, but in ancient times also teaching.

The term cultural contemplates the practical adoption of a system of life, of a custom, of a behavior, or, even, the attribution of a particular value to certain conceptions or realities, and the acquisition of a collective sensitivity and awareness in the face of human and social problems that cannot be ignored or overlooked.

Possible subthemes:

• the drawing of the city
• image and communication
• colors
• art and society
• continuity and discontinuity in the urban form development
• landscape design
• the iconographic history of cities and landscapes

Dr. Giulia Pellegri
Guest Editor

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• drawing
• graphic language
• survey
• landscape
• design
• visual communication