This course will be developed on three tracks and have the following objectives

Sketching: Similar to Arch103, you are asked to bring your sketchbooks to each studio class, and we will pursue our sketching sessions at the start of our classes. These sessions aim to furnish the students with an analytical vision to the formal aspects of the architectural products and drawing abilities to depict these formal characteristics in free hand.

Introduction of new projection systems and further applications of the ones covered in Arch 103:  Orthographic and paraline drawings are already covered and Perspective drawings will be studied in the second semester. Shades and shadows in all three of the projection sytems, composite drawings such as section-perspective, exploded or expanded drawings are amongst the further applications to be covered in spring.

Architectural Representation: The projection systems introduced in the fall and spring semesters are to be used in the term project: “Representation of a small building”. Students are expected to form groups in order to represent architecture and to get acquainted with its basic drawing conventions, norms and scales of the profession. A small building in the university campus will be analyzed and drawn in various techniques by the students. Conceptual and architectural models will be constructed as a group work. Besides equipping the students with technical facets of graphic communication, this term project is to be conceived as a hands-on introduction into the culture of architecture.