In Praise of Penumbra: Architectural Design

Agostino De Rosa is an Architect and Full Professor at Iuav (Italy) and at VIU. He has written several books and essays on the theme of representation, the history of images and land art. He is editor of the critical edition of perspective works and treatises by Minims monk Jean François Niceron (1613- 1646). He worked with an international team on the Roden Crater project (Painted Desert, Arizona USA), designed by American light artist James Turrell (1943), currently on construction. Alessio Bortot, architect, is Doctor Europaeus in Architecture, City and Design, with a specialization in Representation since 2016. He was professor in the courses of "Descriptive geometry", "Advanced technologies for representation" and "Digital 3D modelling" at the Iuav University in Venice, at the faculty of Engineering in the University of Padua, at the IED in Venice and at the École National Supérieure des Travaux Publics in Yaoundé (Camerun). He worked as a research fellow focusing on topics such as History of Representation and Advanced Technologies for Architecture. He is author of several publications in Italy and abroad. At the present time, he works as a research fellow in IRIDE (Research Infrastructure. Integral Design Environment) - the department of excellence in Iuav University (Venice). Francesco Bergamo is an architect and scholar with a Ph.D. in Sciences of Design. He is currently adjunct professor and research fellow at the Università Iuav di Venezia, Dipartimento di Culture del Progetto. His research and publications focus mainly on theories, history, methods, and technologies of drawing and on acoustic ecology, with a specific focus on contemporary forms of representation and on the relationship between visual and sonic culture. He has worked with the composer John Luther Adams and with the artist James Turrell. He has conducted research on stereotomy, on the theoretical and pictorial work of Jean-François Niceron and on painted perspectives upon vaulted surfaces.