Born to See, My Task Is To Draw: Cultivating Architecture Intelligence Through Observation and Hand Drawing

The process of graphic transformation of the environment onto a two dimensional page, acts for architects and students as an explicit and remarkable analytical and design tool, and as a way to develop a higher sense of details and architecture sensibility, architect Michael Graves in his 2012 New YorkTimes article Architecture and the Lost Art ofDrawing,1 explains processes of hand drawing design as “most powerful means of conceptualizing and representing architecture” and how today it has become a generational gap. As interesting as new design technologies are, and important to the overall evolution of architecture teaching and practice, there are important aspects of cognition, creativity and tactile design processes which may be improved with observation, Attention, and hand drawing, moreover, develop in architecture students a strong design potential, what we shall refer as Architectural Intelligence, this concept can be described as the mental projection of form and space which occurs cognitively when we clarify the mind and thought while in the explicit act of creation and design process.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AMP.105.30

Volume Editors
Luis Francisco Rico-Gutierrez & Martha Thorne

ISBN
978-1-944214-07-4