Afterword. «XY» thirty years later / Postfazione. «XY» trent’anni dopo

摘要

The «XY» magazine has a history, and this historyudis linked to Roberto de Rubertis who wasudthe creator and “driving force” since he beganudhis publication, in 1986 for CEDIS, with theudtitle «XY dimensioni del disegno», a criticaludreview of studies on the representation of architectureudand the use of the image in science,udtechnology and art. The magazine declaredudprogrammatically the will to stimulate and disseminateudthe theoretical and applied researchudproduced in scientific areas of drawing anduddesign, collecting important contributions alsoudfrom conferences and seminars such as “Theudscientific foundations of representation”, developingudover the years monographic and interdisciplinaryudtopics including 1968–1988udTwenty years of drawn architecture, Surveyuddossier, Graphics–Architecture, Survey betweenudhistory and science, and finally The placesudof epochal signs about the “suburbs” observedudfrom a linguistic and figurative perspective.