ABSTRACT
The Italian production of manuals related to the regional architectural heritage (Abruzzo, Sardinia, etc.), or to specific cities (Rome, Citta di Castello, Genoa, Matera, etc..), or to architectures built with specific materials (wood, stone, etc…) propose a well established methodology for the analysis of historical buildings, starting from the virtual dismantling of the fabric in order to allow a total knowledge of the methodology of implementation of each building element, the materials used and their assembly, accompanied by a vast iconographic repertoire (maps, drawings, photographs) that describes and documents the still existing artifacts and examine its details.
