Dreams of RuinsDrawing as a Speculative Resource During the Renaissance for Understanding the Architectural Remains of Antiquity

  1. Fernando Linares García
  2. Isaac Mendoza Rodríguez
Buch:
Architectural Graphics
  1. Manuel A. Ródenas López (coord.)
  2. José Calvo López (coord.)
  3. Macarena Salcedo Galera (coord.)

Verlag: Springer Suiza

ISBN: 9783031047022

Datum der Publikation: 2022

Titel des Bandes: Graphics for Knowledge and Production

Ausgabe: 2

Seiten: 43-53

Kongress: Congreso Internacional de Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica (19. 2022. Cartagena)

Art: Konferenz-Beitrag

Zusammenfassung

Whatever is unfinished or incomplete stimulates the imagination by suggesting to the mind the fragmentary object as it originated. Ruins are a veiled recollection of past reality. This article is centred upon the concept of “ruin” and serves to reflect on the earliest Renaissance representations of the architectural remains of the past. It considers how they took shape as a symbolic object but became transformed into an element for academic study; how they went from real ruins to imaginary. It highlights among these aspects the speculative and interpretative sense of these drawings, in addition to their relation with the world of projects and restoration.