Traditional drawing and "New Drawing". Reflections on the role of representation

The contribution, starts from an analysis of the procedures and graphics performed on the survey of San Bernardino in Urbino, proposes a reflection on the current role of traditional drawing and on the role played by the "new drawings”, that is, the different types of graphics that are possible to create from the survey data. From the processing characteristic of the "new drawing", this paper analyses the contribution to knowledge given by those commonly known as images Gigapixels and the subsequent processing of these kinds of data.