Drawing: A Tool for the Development of Spatial Skills

What is the relationship between thought and the act of drawing? What happenson the cognitive level when we draw? To approach the importance of drawing toarchitectonic education and practice, this article examines some of the cognitivemechanisms associated with the act of drawing, using examples of...

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Hovedforfatter: Suter Warnholtz, María
Format: Online
Sprog:spa
Udgivet: Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2020
Online adgang:https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/bitacora/article/view/72890
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Summary:What is the relationship between thought and the act of drawing? What happenson the cognitive level when we draw? To approach the importance of drawing toarchitectonic education and practice, this article examines some of the cognitivemechanisms associated with the act of drawing, using examples of technical drawingsto place special emphasis on what and how certain spatial skills are developed.After considering the idea of drawing as a way of learning and establishing spatialrelationships, it argues that, in architecture, the imagination does not function as aclear visualization, but as a set of multimodal space-time patterns.