TY - CPAPER KW - Architectural cultures KW - Architectural design KW - Architectural representation KW - Architectural restorations KW - Digital environment KW - Digital transcriptions KW - Francesco Cellini KW - Franco Purini KW - Intangible cultural heritages KW - Restoration KW - Traditional techniques KW - Virtual reality KW - Intangible cultural heritage KW - Virtual reality AU - Laura Farroni AU - Matteo Mancini AB - The essay focuses on the need to provide a theoretical basis for the transfer in digital environments of the architectural figurative heritage that was produced with traditional techniques. In particular, it focuses on the sense and meaning of the digital transcription of both theoretical drawings and design drawings of unbuilt architecture. The experiments concern works by Franco Purini and Francesco Cellini, two Italian architects, protagonists of international architectural culture, and place us in front of choices and considerations. These have found support in already tested theories produced in different fields from Architectural Representation. The relationship between virtual and real has taken into account some of the positions by Tomás Maldonado, while Umberto Eco has inspired some ideas about the characteristics of contemporary artworks and the theories of architectural restoration expressed by Cesare Brandi, Giovanni Carbonara and, in particular, by Mario Manieri Elia in reference to the concept of "deferred execution", have been taken into account to endorse a methodological procedure. C2 - Proc. Digit. Herit. Int. Congr., Digital Heritage - Held jointly Int. Conf. Virtual Syst. Multimed., VSMM DO - 10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2018.8810033 N1 - Journal Abbreviation: Proc. Digit. Herit. Int. Congr., Digital Heritage - Held jointly Int. Conf. Virtual Syst. Multimed., VSMM N2 - The essay focuses on the need to provide a theoretical basis for the transfer in digital environments of the architectural figurative heritage that was produced with traditional techniques. In particular, it focuses on the sense and meaning of the digital transcription of both theoretical drawings and design drawings of unbuilt architecture. The experiments concern works by Franco Purini and Francesco Cellini, two Italian architects, protagonists of international architectural culture, and place us in front of choices and considerations. These have found support in already tested theories produced in different fields from Architectural Representation. The relationship between virtual and real has taken into account some of the positions by Tomás Maldonado, while Umberto Eco has inspired some ideas about the characteristics of contemporary artworks and the theories of architectural restoration expressed by Cesare Brandi, Giovanni Carbonara and, in particular, by Mario Manieri Elia in reference to the concept of "deferred execution", have been taken into account to endorse a methodological procedure. PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. SN - 9781728102924 (ISBN) SP - 217 EP - 220 TI - Representation and Restoration Theories for a Digital Life of the Archival Architectural Drawings UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85072377171&doi=10.1109%2fDigitalHeritage.2018.8810033&partnerID=40&md5=2c1f9e98e9b9fde4da7d29979ae64c0a ER -