La permanenza del segno in un linguaggio senza contorni e in continua evoluzione

Abstract

Drawing, understood as a language, is a tool of knowledge and transformation, capable of isolating, simplifying, and structuring reality, while revealing the project and anticipating its forms. Within the School of Architecture in Florence tradition, the sign has always played a central role in education and research, serving as a collector of languages and a bridge between techniques, sciences, and creativity. Today, between analogue and digital, drawing is no longer just representation but also a container of data, a critical synthesis, and a vehicle of complexity, engaged in a continuous dialogue between tradition and innovation. The journal TRIBELON arises from this awareness, placing identity, memory, and technique at its core, while addressing the transformations that graphic language undergoes in the face of new technologies and the speed of digital communication. Through contributions ranging from the analysis of architectural orders to digital representation and the Metaverse, from surveys on the city to comparisons among European schools of architecture, this first issue explores the role of the sign in building knowledge and architectural memory. Sections dedicated to archival drawings, programming, and dialogues with masters aim to make the journal a laboratory of exchange, capable of weaving past and future together in a continuous tension that reaffirms drawing as a universal language - ever evolving, yet always enduring.