Our mission
History explains why a building is made a certain way, Materials explains what it's made of and with what technical and ecological consequences, Travel puts the reader in front of the building, physically, with a real map and itinerary. Three sections, three ways of looking at the same object — that's why Architetturando exists.
The reader we have in mind is a student reviewing for an exam, a professional double-checking a figure, a traveller who wants to understand what they're looking at before they leave. We don't write for the click: we write so that reader, afterward, knows something they didn't before — verifiably, not impressionistically.
Who writes
Each section has its own editorial voice: Luca Vitruvio for History, Sara Conti for Materials, Giacomo Faro for Travel. We say this openly, because trust is built through transparency: these are editorial pseudonyms, not physically existing people with that name and that résumé. It's a common practice, explicitly declared, in journalism — from pseudonymous columnists at publications like The Economist to the collective bylines of many specialist magazines — and we use it to give each section a coherent voice, recognizable article after article, instead of an anonymous "the editors".
To be clear: Luca Vitruvio, Sara Conti and Giacomo Faro are fictional characters. No real people exist with those names, ages, degrees or careers: the biographies on their pages describe the character of each voice, not a résumé. Behind the three bylines is the Architetturando editorial team, which writes, checks and corrects every article. That is why bylines carry no professional titles, and why the structured data of every page names the editorial team as author.
What's behind the pseudonym is real: a written editorial framework — voice, structure and source guidelines for each section — that every article follows, and a research and verification process that never starts from a summary of what's already online, but from primary sources: treatises and archival documents for History, technical standards (EN norms, Eurocodes, safety data sheets) and site visits for Materials, verified itineraries and logistics for Travel.
How we work
Every data point — a measurement, a date, a chemical composition, a sustainability score — comes from an identifiable source, not a rough estimate. When an assessment is a reasoned opinion rather than a measurable fact (a critical judgment on a building, a comparison between materials in a specific context) we flag it as such, instead of presenting it as objective truth.
The site is an ongoing publication: articles get updated when more precise data emerges or when we find a mistake. We don't hide corrections in silence.
Errors and corrections
No work at this scale — hundreds of articles, thousands of individual data points — is free of errors. If you find one — a wrong date, an imprecise measurement, a misspelled name — the most useful thing you can do is report it: it gets checked and, if founded, corrected directly in the article.