Time Schedule:
Judith D. Swain
ARCH 310
Seattle Campus
Lectures, demonstrations, and exercises to develop skill in graphic visualization and representation as used in architecture. Concepts, conventions, and techniques of both freehand and technical drawing are used as a vital means to imagine, develop, and represent design ideas. Course material coordinated with 303 studio to integrate drawing in all phases of the design process.
Class description
Drawing is presented as a vital intellectual activity to be integrated in all phases of the design process. The conventions and techniques of drawing are used as tools for the analysis, invention, manipulation, testing and communication of architectural ideas. Orthographic, paraline and perspective drawing systems and their conventions are introduced through a series of lecture/demonstrations. Information is presented in a historical context(e.g. the development of perspective drawing). Contour or line drawing (including line weights) and tone drawing techniques are introduced. Drawing systems and techniques are exercised in both freehand and projection drafting assignments.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
Lectures, demonstrations, and exercises to develop skill in graphic visualization and representation as used in architecture. Concepts, conventions, and techniques of both freehand and technical drawing are used as a vital means to imagine, develop, and represent design ideas. Course material coordinated with 303 Studio to integrate drawing in all phases of the design process.
Recommended preparation
Class assignments and grading
Course projects encourage students to confirm or deduce drawing principles and methods of construction through drawings made from direct observation. In this way, freehand drawing and drafted construction methods are understood to be complementary. The first course is intended to introduce students to the range of drawing 'tools' and develop foundation skills for their immediate use in the design studio.
