The design poetics of Francesco Fichera, between traditional representation and digital communication

Abstract

This contribution illustrates the important relationship between architectural project design and the modern instruments of digital representation and communication. We investigate the integration between the traditional techniques for elaborating and the digital methods for communicating a project through the “G. De Felice” Technical and Commercial Institute (1926) project by architect F. Fichera of Catania, Sicily. The nature of the documentary material, exhibited and conserved at the MuRa museum in Catania, demands an analytical reinterpretation of the design poetics of the time and the place, and the need for new digital languages to document and communicate the precious archival heritage through close comparison between realised architecture and design thought.

Keywords

• archivi
• disegno di progetto
• rappresentazione digitale
• comunicazione
• esperienze culturali digitali.