The survey of historical architecture: a cognitive, cultural and territorial project

The practice of surveying architecture and the environment is unequivocally linked to the cognitive process of the state of affairs according to a specific design activity with a critical and methodological approach. The aspects of historical-iconographic analysis, explored to the maximum in the analysis of the treatises, of the narration through images and of the transformative-urban consequences of the places, are considered as the first phase of approach to the survey project, a project that involves themes related to reading, to the perception, size, urban and territorial organization, economic, social and sustainable reality of cultural heritage, investigated according to innovative digital methods. The research places at the center of the project the scientific and educational implications on the survey of villa fabric in the Ligurian territory, with focus on a case study: Villa Gavotti della Rovere in Albisola Superiore.