Characterization of conception drawing in architecture to face technological mediations

  • Hugo C. Gomez-Tone , 1,2 ,
  • Javier F. Raposo Grau 1
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  • 1. Departamento de Ideación Gráfica Arquitectónica, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid 28040, Spain
  • 2. Departamento de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, Arequipa 04001, Peru
hgomezt@unsa.edu.pe (H.C. Gomez-Tone)

Received date: 17 Sep 2023

Revised date: 09 Dec 2023

Accepted date: 28 Dec 2023

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2024 2024 The Author(s). Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd.

Abstract

The conception drawing in architecture is that allows to initiate the architectural thinking, visualizing, and discovering the first ideas. This drawing has traditionally been given as an act of linking and collaboration between thought, sight, and the movement of the hands with a tool. Identifying and recognizing its characteristics will make it possible to deal with any mediation of information technologies. To establish such characteristics, three case studies were carried out. An analysis was made of the conception drawings and interviews by the Pritzker Prize laureates: Ando, Hadid and Gehry. One condition and four characteristics have been determined: drawing is a phenomenological action that produces haptic drawings; it is an undecided process that originates unformed drawings; it is a fast action that results in small and multiplied drawings; it is a perceptual act that generates redrawn and remarked drawings; and finally, it is an action that seeks to remember to resume the creative process at another moment, which produces rudimentary conventional drawings. Knowing these before any technological mediation will be an important pedagogical contribution that will allow future architects not to alter the cognitive processes that generate the first ideas in the initial moments of the architectural project.

Cite this article

Hugo C. Gomez-Tone , Javier F. Raposo Grau . Characterization of conception drawing in architecture to face technological mediations[J]. Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2024 , 13(3) : 425 -438 . DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2023.12.013

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