Carnet de voyage: A Ruskin’s legacy on capture and transmission the architectural travel experience

Travel notebook (carnet de voyage) is one of the most invaluable legacies of Ruskin from
the didactic and formative point of view of architecture. It has remained the preferred medium by which architectural experiences are gathered into memoirs, subsequently finding
their way into projects. Travel experiences captured in notebooks are made up by references
that have a strong and important impact on the architectural training. This Ruskin’s legacy
gives the opportunity to study how architects learn to observe geographic, chromatic, pictorial, perceptual, and sensory phenomena. Collecting experiences and references in a carnet de voyage also involves reflections and analysis of the sites visited, where architects produce an instrument of knowledge for composition, conceptualization and critical reflection, and the learning of architecture today. Through the notebooks of the first formation
travels of an English gentleman, it is possible to achieve a lesson of democratization of the
journey as it is expanded and diffused for those who possibly do not have the possibility to
travel in the same way