The «XY» magazine has a history, and this history
is linked to Roberto de Rubertis who was
the creator and “driving force” since he began
his publication, in 1986 for CEDIS, with the
title «XY dimensioni del disegno», a critical
review of studies on the representation of architecture
and the use of the image in science,
technology and art. The magazine declared
programmatically the will to stimulate and disseminate
the theoretical and applied research
produced in scientific areas of drawing and
design, collecting important contributions also
from conferences and seminars such as “The
scientific foundations of representation”, developing
over the years monographic and interdisciplinary
topics including 1968–1988
Twenty years of drawn architecture, Survey
dossier, Graphics–Architecture, Survey between
history and science, and finally The places
of epochal signs about the “suburbs” observed
from a linguistic and figurative perspective
