Drawing I

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical classes with detailed presentation of the historical development and the methodological models defining the Drawing from observation graphic culture.

Learning Outcomes

The curricular Unit intends to provide MIA students with a cultural and creative understanding of drawing as a visual and resourceful practice to characterize and re-interpret organized space, volume and figure-ground relations in the architectural exercises developed in the design studio.To provide an effective use of the full spectrum of drawing media and techniques. To provide through the “learning by doing” and the trial and error knowledge procedures, a set of skills and techniques that will help students use drawing as a performative and informational tool in the graphic perception and representation of urban space and human built environment.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

a) Drawing as an expressive device to depict the appearance of the built environment through the representation of isolated and grouped models and the portraying of volumetric shapes and architectonic space. Drawing as a method to study the real world context of the urban environment; to study scale relations between different models (portable and fixed).
b) Drawing as a language of beholding: a cognitive process based on the improvement of the relationship between the hand stroke and the eye screening.
c) The nomenclature of drawing from observation: drawing types according to their figure-ground thematic (synthesis and detail), their length (the sketch and the long duration drawing) and their draft methodology (diagrammatic drawing, contour drawing , blind or negative space drawing, measured drawing).

Head Lecturer(s)

Teresa Maria da Silva Antunes Pais

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 20.0%
Project: 20.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 60.0%

Bibliography

• Bermingham, Ann. Learning to Draw: Studies in the cultural history of a polite and useful art, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2000.

• Craig-Martin, Michael.Drawing the Line: Reappraising Drawing Past and Present, The South Bank Centre, 1995.

• Derrida, Jacques Memórias de Cego: O auto-retrato e outras ruínas (trad. Fernanda Bernardo), Fundação Gulbenkian, Lisboa, 2010.

• Edwards, Betty. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; 3Rev Ed edition, 2001, ISBN 978-0-00-711645-4

• Elderfield, John. The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1985.

• Heather, Spears. The Creative Eye. London: Arcturus. 2007. ISBN 978-0-572-03315-6.

• Lohan, Frank. Pen & Ink Techniques, Contemporary Books, 1978, ISBN 0-8092-7438-8.

• Lambert, Susan. Reading Drawings: an introduction to looking at drawings, Pantheon Books, New York, 1984.

• Laughton, Bruce. The Drawings of Daumier and Millet, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1991.

• Molina, Juan José Gomes. Las leccines del dibujo, Madrid, Cátedra, 1995.

• Recht, Roland. Le dessin d'architecture, origines et fonctions, Paris,Adam Biro, 1995