Architectural representation. A proposal starting from Leonardo considering a psychophysiological point of view

This paper aims at discussing the repositioning of the representation of architecture and related methods and techniques, starting from the central place of the visual knowledge, as well already explained in the Aristotle Metaphysics, and repurposed as basis of neuroaesthetics by Semir Zeki The text places as central momen.t the declination of this assumption by Leonardo da Vinci “Therefore it is necessary to figure and describe” and, starting from the Leonardo’s complete formulation, it proposes its development by analyzing methods and limits of the current representation of architecture methods and techniques, with a view to their critical reanalysis.