Course Description
The course introduces the student to basic architectural drawing skills and techniques. Fundamentals of architectural drawing; conventions of graphic representation, drawing as an important means to architecture, orthographic projection, architectural composition through abstract shapes and forms by using models, study of architectural space, plan, section, elevation, perspective, other graphic means. Student should acquire an ability to communicate simple forms graphically by transforming visual information into a two-dimensional image with shade and shadow. The course examines the language of architectural form and deals with the techniques of analyzing and representing it by different means of rendering. The course is based on studio exercises and includes lectures. By the end of the semester student should submit two projects, the first is an abstract composition project using basic shapes, while the second is an architectural application on a simple two story villa which will be submitted in two techniques, the manual approach and Photoshop presentation approach.
Course ID: ARCH-122
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 3 | 4 | 4 | ARCH-121 |
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