From the line to the point cloud - XIV International Congress of Graphic Expression applied to Building APEGA 2019

Aug 27, 2026

The text provides an overview of the XIV International Congress of Graphic Expression applied to Building, organized by APEGA in Seville on 21–23 February. Centered on the theme “From the line to the point cloud,” the congress brought together architects, engineers, and researchers to exchange experiences, projects, and ideas on graphic expression and related new technologies. It details the congress structure, key thematic areas (Line, Volume, Point Cloud), number of communications, keynote contributions, and the focus on contemporary drawing research directions supported by scientific and technical implications.

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XIV International Congress overview

Congress theme: From the line to the point cloud

Thematic areas and coordinators (Line, Volume, Point Cloud)

Participation and communications

Sessions and keynote contributions

Featured papers and research topics

5 / 2019 Events XIV International Conference on Graphic Expression applied to Building APEGA 2019. From the line to the point cloud Stefano Chiarenza The XIV International Congress of Graphic Expression applied to Building, promoted by the scientific association APEGA (Association of Teachers of Graphic Expression applied to Building) was held this year in Seville on 21, 22 and 23 February. The Congress–organized in synergy by the Department of Graphic Expression and Building Engineering as well as the Department of Graphic Engineering of the University of Seville–had a strong scientific-technological s lant a nd was aimed to collect the main experiences, projects and ideas in the field of graphic expression and related new technologies. It was an opportunity to exchange and share reflections and experiments, aimed at telling the state of the art of Drawing in the fields o f architecture and engineering and to lay the foundations for exploring possible research scenarios even beyond the limits of the questioned issues. With fourty-eight communications and eight sessions, this year’s Conference recorded a significant interest, which was matched by a considerable number of presences. The underlying theme of the congress was expressed the main statement‘From the line to the point cloud’ whose ambivalence allowed on the one hand to set the extremes of an interval able to accommodate a wide category of [https://doi.org/10.26375/disegno.5.2019.27](https://doi.org/10.26375/disegno.5.2019.27) contributions, on the other to highlight the development path of contemporary graphic expression with its scientific and technical implications (fig. 1) . On the specific reflection subject defined, the organizers had the task of bringing together a wide variety of topics and themes that well reflect the wealth of the work undertaken by scholars, at an international level, in the disciplines of architectural and engineering Drawing. In particular, the contributions were collected in three thematic areas, each of which assigned to a coordinator and including five key topics supervised by as many experts. Area 1, dedicated to the Line and coordinated by Emilio Ramirez Juidias, has collected all the contributions specifically oriented to architectural design, cartography and topography, remote sensing and GIS, innovation in teaching and technical design; area 2, dedicated to the Volume and coordinated by Santiago Lloréns Corraliza, has instead collected contribution focusing on heritage survey, interior and industrial design, graphic analysis of buildings, design in historic buildings and BIM technology. The third and last area, called Point Cloud and supervised by Andrés Martin Pastor, has instead collected the articles related to virtual and augmented reality, ICT applications, parametric and gener- ative design and digital laboratories, as well as visual communication issues and smart cities up to multimedia production and artistic animation including interfaces and devices related to them. Among the eighty-two contributions, selected by a panel of expert reviewers of different nationalities, twenty-nine were received in Area 1, forty-four in Area 2 and nine in Area 3. The Congress began on February 21 in the precious setting of the Paraninfo of the University of Seville, the historic Assembly Hall in the Palace of the Rectorate (fig. 2).After the official welcome greetings, the inaugural speech was the keynote by professor José María Gentil Baldrich, of the Department of Graphic and Architectural Expression of the Seville, School of Architecture. Focused on the Architecture and Building Research, the contribution skilfully outlines a general framework of research in the architectural-engineering field, tracing its origins and recent history through some of the most significant doctoral thesesin Spain, in which the aspects related to graphic expression represented a fundamental element. In the afternoon, the first two work session

FAQs

What was the main theme of the 2019 APEGA congress?

The congress theme was “From the line to the point cloud,” linking different extremes of a research interval and highlighting the development path of contemporary graphic expression.

How were the contributions organized during the congress?

The organizers grouped the work into three thematic areas—Line, Volume, and Point Cloud—each coordinated by a lead scholar and supervised by experts.

What types of topics were covered in the Point Cloud area?

The Point Cloud area included work on virtual and augmented reality, ICT applications, parametric and generative design, digital laboratories, visual communication, smart cities, and multimedia production.

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