Departament of Architectural Representation. RA

Architectural Representation III - ETSAV

Architectural Representation III

Professors:
Antonio Millán Gómez (Coordinator)
Jordi de Gispert Hernández
Cira López Miró

 

Objectives

  • To know how to represent a project, persuasively and properly to its idea.
  • To communicate with clarity the relation between the project and its context, not minding if its an urban environment or a natural context.
  • To customise the representations of the landscape field and depth values.
  • To distinguish the strategies of representation of public and urban space of built architecture.
  • To interpret the place and treat it with care.
  • To elaborate diagrams, paths and additional drawings to explain the proposed projects.
  • To know paradigmatic drawings / representations in the Architecture and Urbanism history, as the source to develop a continuous learning in the representation lessons. 

Content

Communicate and represent the graphic project documents with persuasion ability corresponding to the proposed idea. 

 

Specific objectives:
  1. Personal expression, graphic style and project. Temperament and avant-gardes. Representation. 
  2. Description of a building and its systems.
  3. Architecture and context. Implementation. Study cases.
  4. Design management. Graphic composition of information. Graphic discourse. Narratives. Study cases. 
  5. Place, activities and possibility fields reading.
  6. Indoor area's scenography. How to represent them.
  7. Sequential experience, architectural path. 
  8. Urban morphology and residential patterns. Representation and evaluation techniques.
  9. Diagrams as project's summary.
  10. Figure and background. Collage and photography manipulation. Image and vector files link. 
  11. Public space representation. Study cases. 
  12. Landscape representation. Study cases and trends.

 

Basic bibliography

Paris, Rome, Athènes : le voyage en Grèce des architectes français aux XIXe et XXe siècles. [2e éd.]. [Paris]: EBA, [1983]. ISBN 2904639140.

Bacon, Edmund N. Design of cities. Revised edition 1975 published in paperback 1978. [London]: Thames and Hudson, 1978. ISBN 050027133X.

Gombrich, E. H. Shadows : the depiction of cast shadows in western art. London: National Gallery Publications, 1995. ISBN 0300063571.

Haan, Hilde de; Haagsma, Ids; Sharp, Dennis; Frampton, Kenneth. Architects in competition: international architectural competitions of the last 200 years. London: Thames and Hudson, 1988. ISBN 0500341036.

Jong, Cees de; Mattie, Erik. Architectural competitions = Architektur Wettbewerbe = Concours d'architecture. Köln: Benedikt Taschen, cop. 1994. ISBN 3822889008.

Neumann, Dietrich; Champa, Kermit Swiler. Architecture of the night : the illuminated building. Munich [etc.]: Prestel, cop. 2002. ISBN 3791325876.