Ricerc@Sapienza

There has always existed an inextricable interrelation between architecture and drawing. On
the other hand it is obvious that architecture can manifest itself as an expressive literary form
(studies of treatises, etc.) as a construction (i.e. as realized usable spaces, etc.) or precisely as
drawing (i.e. as a thought-form expressed through signs). Starting from these points the
research traces—through historical interpretation, critical analysis and the use of informatics
utilizing virtualization as an element of representation—the development of the design idea and
the construction of Carlo Scarpaʼs Casa Ottolenghi.