Visual Communications I

Catalog description

Development of two and three-dimensional graphic communications skills and techniques required for the practice of architecture. ARCH 121 Visual Communications I (2)The course is designed to introduce two and three-dimensional graphic communication skills. Assignments will develop the student's understanding and skills associated with the hand-drawing techniques used in the practice of architecture. Exercises provide exposure to the variety of representational techniques available to architects for the visual communication of design ideas and design documentation. Visual Communications I is organized as an interactive studio environment which combines lectures and demonstrations with individual instruction. The basic concepts and theories of documenting, representing, and presenting architecture will be introduced through a series of lectures, seminars, and examples. In studio, skills will be developed through project workshops. Instruction includes working sessions, individual desk reviews, technique demonstrations and group discussions. Students will learn the fundamentals of architectural drawing by hand, introductory-level descriptive geometry, orthographic projection, paraline and perspective drawings. These skills and principles are imparted primarily through studio-based assigned projects.