Exhibition dedicated to Roberto Corazzi
The Teaching of Descriptive Geometry at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence
May 28–June 12, 2026
Department of Architecture, Santa Teresa Campus – 4th floor
Free admission
The exhibition is dedicated to Roberto Corazzi, architect and professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence, and to the role his teaching played in training generations of students in Descriptive Geometry. For over thirty years, he taught “Fundamentals and Applications of Descriptive Geometry” and “Photogrammetric Surveying of Architecture and the Environment,” contributing to a teaching method based on the relationship between representation, knowledge, and the construction of space.
The exhibition brings together students’ graphic works preserved in the Faculty’s Drawing Archive, which highlight the geometric foundation of the Florentine school: orthogonal projections, axonometry, and perspective as tools for analyzing architectural form, alongside the study of intersections, shadows, and vaulted surfaces. These works reveal a teaching approach aimed at mastering three-dimensional space.
The exhibition also highlights the method of the Florentine school, founded on the idea that mastery of Descriptive Geometry guarantees structural and formal correctness. The drawings thus become testimonies to a true epistemology of design, bridging geometric theory and architectural practice, of which the studies on Brunelleschi’s Dome remain the highest and most celebrated example.
