Abstract
Editorial Summary: Professional drawing has always played an important role in the training of architects. Plan-drawings have already been sufficiently considered in established architectural research. The research of Peter Schmid presented in this text focuses on so far only scarcely examined architectural sketchbooks as well as various records used for architectural education, such as manuscripts for lectures or notes on perspective theory which belong to the »Munich School« - a tradition of teaching hand-drawing that developed over a period of 150 years through an on-going teacher-student relationship at the Technical University of Munich. He finds that the aim of »Munich School« was not only learning how to illustrate, but also to comprehend architecture through graphic analysis - thereby combining teaching and practice. Against the background that the interest in hand-drawings has significantly increased in recent years, the research helps to refine the role of hand-drawings today as a tool that sets »processes of cognition in motion«. [Ferdinand Ludwig]
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Editorial Summary: Professional drawing has always played an important role in the training of architects
It seems difficult to imagine that the use of digital tools or the application of Building Information Modeling (BIM) alone is a guarantee of »beauty« in Corresponding author: Peter Schmid (Technical University of Munich, Germany); peter.schmid@tum.de
In the Renaissance, with the disegno-theories, architects established a body of thought on architectural design in which drawing – or the ability to sketch – was attributed an essential role
Summary
Editorial Summary: Professional drawing has always played an important role in the training of architects. The research of Peter Schmid presented in this text focuses on so far only scarcely examined architectural sketchbooks as well as various records used for architectural education, such as manuscripts for lectures or notes on perspective theory which belong to the »Munich School« – a tradition of teaching hand-drawing that developed over a period of 150 years through an on-going teacher-student relationship at the Technical University of Munich. Architectural Drawings: Teaching and Understanding a Visual Discipline 175 the designing and practicing architect is often lacking – especially in historic reseach In this respect, art history follows a purely theoretical method, which is based on the scientific understanding of the subject. The schism of architectural research and architectural practice undisputedly leads to professional specialization and optimization on both sides, it obviously requires a constant exchange between the two related disciplines
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