ARCH 255: Graphic Skills
Course Description:
Learning the manual skills of architectural drafting, from paper formatting, lettering, projection drawings, and finally executing simple architectural presentation. It provides an introduction to architectural drafting to develop the student's skills in drafting and the use of drawing tools and instruments. The assignments starts from basic grid drawing all the way through floor plans and elevations of a small villa. Also, basic rendering skills are introduced to the students to gain the ability to submit presentable architectural drawings.
Course Goals & Objectives
To enable students understand the conventions of drawing language in architectural drawing and drafting. Also, to gain the ability to convey architectural design ideas using architectural graphic skills in presentation work.
Student Performance Criterion
- Speaking and writing skills,
- Critical Thinking Skills,
- Graphics Skills,
Topical Outline (including percentage of time in course spent in each subject area):
- Basic skills: 5 weeks (31.25%)
- Projection drawings: 5 weeks (31.25%)
- Architectural drawings: 6 weeks (37.5%)
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisits needed for this course.
Textbooks/Learning Resources
There is an internal course material handouts given to students for each assignment. These handouts represent the main source of information to fulfill the assignment requirments. However, students are encureged to gain more information from other sources like books, magazins, and the internet. Here are some recomended sources for additional information:
- Ching , Francis. Architectural Graphics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc : Now York, 1996 .
- Ching, Francis, & Steven Juroszek. Design Drawing. 1998.
- Forseth, Kevin. Graphics for Architecture, VNR : New York, 1997.
- EDWARDS, BETTY. The new Drawing on the Right side of the Brain. J.P. Tarcher, 1999.
- EDWARDS, BETTY. The new Drawing on the Right side of the Brain Workbook. J.P. Tarcher, 2002.