Introduction to Architecture I - The Architect's Eye

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Building on the graphic kills acquired during the freshman year, the overarching goal for this class is to assist students in developing their manual skills in the service of their intellectual skills. this class demonstrates some of the ways in which the architect's mind, eye, hand, and tools are cultivated and refined by experience. the class overs a rigorous application of drawing methods in order to judiciously imagine and design buildings in their urban and natural contexts. to this is added a set of analytical exercises of exemplary drawings as well as paintings in order to demonstrate the configuration of forms in relation to other forms, perspectival representation, the relation between line, color, and shadow, as well as the regulating geometries and numerical relations inherent in buildings, in human and animal bodies, and in plants.