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2026-06-10

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Vol. 10 No. 16 (2025): Evolving Drawings, Projects, and Surveys

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ISBN (online): 978-88-5541-164-6

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15168/xy.v10i16

Published: 2026-08-07

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Editorial

Editorial. A Necessary Adaptation

Elena Casartelli, Fabio Luce, Giovanna A. Massari, Margherita Parrilli, Cristina Pellegatta, Lorella Pizzonia, Roberta C. Vitale, Cristiana Volpi

4-9
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Essays

Drawing as Soul and Life

Franco Purini

10-11
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Drawing Hyperspace. From Pencil to Computer Graphics

Michele Emmer

12-27
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From Vitruvian Firmitas to Iconic Survival: OMA’s Netherlands Dance Theater and the Afterlife of Architecture in Images

Fabio Quici

28-43
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Schinkel’s Lehrbuch. A Resilient ‘Form’ of Thought

Laura Nunzia Ferlito, Graziano Testa

44-59
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Abstract Fragments: The Transgression of Language in the Representational Logics of Zaha Hadid

Giulia Lazzaretto

60-75
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Visualising Power in Pyongyang: Political Architecture from Juche to Green

Hyun-Guk Ryu

76-95
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The Images of the Survey: Interpreting Architecture between the Perceived and the Inaccessible

Valentina Castagnolo, Anna Christiana Maiorano

96-113
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From Buried Time to the Resilient Image: The Neanderthal Man and the Lamalunga Cave

Fabrizio Banfi, Elena Dellù, Francesca Romana Paolillo, Diego Blanco

114-135
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Drawing for Art Conservation: A Possible Evolution of Its Language

Francesca Gasparetto

136-153
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Imago Resiliens. Signs Between the Visible and the Invisible in Artificial Imagination

Cesare Battelli, Giovanni Pirari

154-173
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From Drawing to the Sensitive Model: The Epistemology of Data in Digital Architectural and Urban Representation

Gabriele Casarano

174-185
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Competition

The Competition for the Cover Image

186-187
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