Dalla forma urbana all'immagine della città

The aim of this study is to analyze the interplay between drawing, city and form, to prove the thesis that geometry, abstraction of our minds and foundation of the project and the survey, deeply conditions the image of the city by structuring the perception process, focus on research in the field of rapresentation. The analysis is undertaken starting from the two-dimensional congruence between vision, pattern and drawing, using the synthesis provided by the primitive archetypes of the point and the line, with the intention of investigating the figurative routes that determine the transition from urban to the image of the city, a relation very important to reestablishing the way of reading of the place and the sequential project. The treatise is divided into five sections and interest the contextualization of the theme in the representation sector, the analysis of figurative process as a system of signs, the study of the relationship between form and image of the city in the history, an examination of the image’s codes, interpreted in the case study of Perugia, and then a final summary of the relationship between figuration and representation. A parallel series of images and notes ensure adequate investigation and verify the efficiency of the approach to the issue. The development of the thesis, in its systematic nature, leads to the definition of a model capable of investigating the link between urban form and the image of the city, a useful tool for the interpretation as in a purely cultural perspective, as in a proactive vision insert in the relationship between reading the existent, knowing the becoming and taking action. However the geometry, in conclusion, appears as the very center of reasoning, language of figuration and drawing tool that puts order and measure, starting from the eye. Between the poles of image and form, dawn a recursive way centered on the man, the foundation needed to find in the contemporary city values for the identity and for the orientation.