Michele Calvano. Disegno digitale esplicito. Rappresentazioni responsive dell’architettura e della città

The great wonder of the word “draw-ing” lies in the ability to understand in its meanings a vast heterogeneity of phenomena and activities, belonging to the sphere of perception, knowledge, imagination and communication. No-ble meanings, able to specialize when the word is accompanied by adjectives that specify the application field. With Disegno digitale esplicito(Explicit digital drawing), Michele Calvano suggests to the readers to focus attention on a par-ticular quality of drawing, which is prev-alent in the digital meaning, consisting in the “explicitness” of the geometric-for-mal genesis: the synthetic and concep-tual communication of the realization process of the drawing. This “narration” process takes place through indirect digital modeling tools, which are the modeling aids provided by the Visual Programming Language. These offer on the one hand the creative and expres-sive freedom characteristic of program-ming languages, and on the other hand the organizational and communicative capacity of flow charts