B002368 - ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING

The course has the aim to give to the students the instruments and the methods to understand and to represent architecture/buildings. The lessons are divided in didactic areas; each of them will face arguments relative to particular graphical techniques and systems of representation. At such modules will be alternated practical execises that look forward to help the students to take familiarity with the traditional and the computerized instruments of drawing.

The course will be aimed to the learning of the main, basic graphical skills for the representation of architecture in all its forms: historical, monumental, design, conceptual, virtual, etc… The main approach to the theme will follow a path starting from the traditional techniques with some references to the computer graphic and the description of the more useful meeting points between the analogic and the digital procedures of representation.

Students are introduced in knowledge and in use of intellectual means of architectural design: geometry, metric systems in relation with materials, graphic conventional representation, pointing out relation between design and drawing. Graphic conventions are described as the mean supporting the complexity of expression of architectural design.

Marco Bini, Tecniche grafiche e rappresentazione degli elementi dell'architettura, Alinea, 88-8125-572-3, Firenze, 2001.

Edwards Betty
Il nuovo disegnare con la parte destra del cervello
Longanesi, 8830418730
Milano, 2002

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The examination: what is required
The student will bring the sketchbook to the examination; it will be completed of every single drawing developed during the year, correctly composed and in good overall conditions.
Together with the sketchbook a group of 6 sheets on opaque paper are required; this exercise is single for each student and will be described in the next pages. It will be prepared on A3 size sheets (a4 or a3 format), the weight and the grain of the paper is a student’s choice.
During the first part of the examination the student will be asked to produce a set of drawing in an ex-tempore exercitation, this will be done on paper sheets brought by the student, but signed and stamped before the exercitation start. The subject ot the exercitation will be assigned the same day of the examination. This ex tempore will be subject to an evaluation, if this one will be positive the students will have a colloquy about their work during the course (the sketchbook and the A3 exercitations)