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Architectural Drawing

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Architectural drawing is a technical representation of a building or structure, illustrating its design, dimensions, and spatial relationships. It serves as a communication tool between architects, engineers, and builders, encompassing various types such as plans, elevations, sections, and details, essential for the construction and visualization of architectural projects.
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Architectural drawing is a technical representation of a building or structure, illustrating its design, dimensions, and spatial relationships. It serves as a communication tool between architects, engineers, and builders, encompassing various types such as plans, elevations, sections, and details, essential for the construction and visualization of architectural projects.

Key research themes

1. How is traditional architectural drawing evolving in response to digital and automated technologies?

This research area investigates the transformation of architectural drawing practice considering the impact of emerging digital technologies such as AI, procedural modeling, BIM, and virtual reality. It matters because while drawing has been fundamental for centuries in architectural design and survey, new technological paradigms challenge its traditional role, potentially relegating it to verification rather than creation, and introduce novel ways to generate, represent, and analyze architectural forms.

Key finding: Colonnese highlights how traditional drawing, historically central to both architectural survey and design, is increasingly marginalized by innovations like laser scanning and BIM, which disrupt the continuous cognitive-motor... Read more
Key finding: This work demonstrates that the fusion of shape grammars with procedural modeling enables automated generation of digital architectural heritage with user-adjustable parameters, easing complex modeling of architectural... Read more
Key finding: The study empirically investigates AI-driven style transfer to replicate Frank Lloyd Wright's drawing style on photographs, illustrating that AI not only automates but can also creatively reinterpret architectural graphic... Read more
Key finding: Empirical workshops show that integrating freehand drawing with virtual reality environments fosters a hybrid design exploration process, where continuous translation between physical sketches and immersive 3D digital models... Read more

2. What cognitive and neural mechanisms underlie architectural drawing and sketching skills?

This area explores the neurological and psychological bases of architectural drawing by examining brain regions involved in visuospatial integration, imagery, and motor coordination. Understanding these mechanisms is crucial for advancing pedagogical strategies and optimizing tools that align with the cognitive processes architects engage during observational and imaginative drawing.

Key finding: This research synthesizes neuroimaging studies to establish the posterior parietal cortex, particularly the superior parietal lobe, precuneus, and inferior parietal lobe, as an integrative hub coordinating visuospatial... Read more

3. How does architectural drawing serve as a pedagogic and design research tool in architectural education?

This theme probes how drawing functions beyond representation—as an intrinsic cognitive and investigative method in architectural education and practice. The emphasis is on the role of freehand sketching, physical modeling, and archival student drawings in promoting design understanding, creativity, and knowledge transmission. It is important to uncover effective strategies for integrating traditional and contemporary drawing practices in curricula.

Key finding: The work argues that freehand drawing enhances comprehension of architectural complexities by bridging art and architecture, serving as a crucial pedagogical means to develop visual and artistic sensibilities. It establishes... Read more
Key finding: Presenting a layered software environment combining graphics recognition with flexible user interfaces, this study advances methods for semi-automated analysis of architectural drawings. The system supports augmented... Read more
Key finding: By systematically analyzing 7,293 student thesis drawings at MIT spanning 1873–1968, this research connects drawing practices to curricular evolutions, revealing how representation techniques and conceptualizations of... Read more
Key finding: The paper reconceptualizes physical modeling ('maquettes') as investigative and instructional devices rather than mere representations, positioning them as integral to an iterative design research process... Read more
Key finding: The study innovates architectural education by integrating 3D printed models that facilitate hands-on reassembly of classical order elements per Vignola’s treatise, enhancing comprehension of compositional syntax. This... Read more

All papers in Architectural Drawing

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Nel cuore pulsante del Rinascimento, racchiuso tra le pagine dense e visionarie del Codice M da Vinci ha lasciato un'annotazione che oggi potrebbe rivoluzionare la storia della tecnologia dei materiali e offrire nuove prospettive sulla... more
Il volume (Vita Nostra Edizioni, 2025) continua l'esplorazione di A.S. sull'opera di Caravaggio, privilegiando il legame con i nuovi strumenti dell'ottica che implicano una nuova estetica e una nuova visione del mondo. Centrale in questa... more
promovido con fuerza desde entonces este ámbito de estudio. Así lo demuestran las Actas del XV Simposio Internacional de Mudejarismo, celebrado en el año 2021 en homenaje al profesor Borrás. Hoy en día la base de datos actualizada que... more
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24 Disegnare per ispirare: una rinnovata simbiosi tra naturale e artificiale Luigi Cuppone 26 Trentuno, trentadue. Ritmi sovrapposti nella biblioteca di San Martino delle Scale Edoardo Dotto 28 Il tempo lento del racconto cucito Francesca... more
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The essay theorizes on architectural conception in the initial stage of formulating ideas and their graphic representation. Digital media are introduced as an element in this process. On the basis of the constructivist theory in... more
Abstract: Durante il restauro dei portoni principali della sede di Bari della Banca d’Italia, è stata effettuata un’analisi per individuare il materiale protettivo più adatto da applicare nello strato di finitura delle porte in legno. I... more
We propose drawing as design project process, regarded both as project’s instrumental utility (technology) and condition for disciplinary reflection (art), considering drawing as language whose operability enables innovation in design. At... more
Una de las alhajas más significativas del tesoro catedralicio de la Seo cesaraugustana es, sin duda, esta naveta o navecilla de mesa que guarnece una concha de molusco (identificada como Turbo marmoratus por expertos malacólogos) . Este... more
This study explores the intersections of craftsmanship, architecture and bureaucracy in eighteenth-century Saxony, focusing particularly on the Saxon Oberbauamt, the state’s supreme building authority. It contextualises the career of... more
La biblioteca intesa come edificio risponde a criteri di ordine estetico e funzionale: i primi sono espressione del gusto del momento, i secondi rispondono a esigenze di conservazione e fruizione del materiale bibliografico coerentemente... more
If good drawings tell a story, then a section whispers its secrets. Every architectural design instructor knows the danger of students getting "stuck in plan." They will try, over and over, to put everything in its proper place before... more
Contributo nel volume "Giorgio Fernandez. Opere e progetti" a cura di Elena Manzo (40due Edizioni, Palermo)
Ho scelto il Collage, come forma d'arte prediletta. Che di per sé, in verità, è una non-forma, per come lo intendo io. L'unico valore aggiunto o margine di scarto, che il collage porta con sé, è il fatto di tenere insieme, nello stesso... more
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An approach to Descriptive Geometry from digital graphic tools is presented, in which the form of graphic interaction that arises from these tools is analysed, and the importance of their associated automatisms and procedures is... more
The Bauhaus school’s utilisation of both the model medium and axonometric projection in the early-twentieth century perhaps best typifies the historical links between technology, rationalisation, and representational techniques. By the... more
Kenneth Frampton migrated from London to the United States in 1965, and by the early1980s his condemnation of American Populist architecture would reach its apogee as ‘the reduction of architecture to pure scenography’. This notion of... more
16. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, il tema scelto dalle curatrici Yvonne Farrell e Shelley McNamara è Freespace. Una piattaforma pia- na, in legno e con motivo a scacchi, s’innesta sul Padiglione della Gran Bretagna, fa l’eco alle... more
Analisi della lingua dell'architetto Aldo Rossi tra strutturalismo e autobiografismo
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he studio project in the first year of the undergraduate architecture program at the National School of Architecture and Urbanism in Tunis provides an introduction to architectural design. It offers the learner the opportunity to... more
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O. Selvafolta, “Lights on Modern Schools”. The Kindergarten by Cesare Cattaneo in Asnago (1935–1937) This essay analyzes the first built work by Cesare Cattaneo: the kindergarten in Asnago, designed in collaboration with Luigi Origoni... more
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