O desenho no projeto. O projeto no desenho

Abstract

In a scenario where, in the name of supposed greater efficiency, the new technological means of architectural production have almost sidelined the traditional ways of thinking the architectural project, this research proposes to reflect on the possibilities of hand drawing as a design methodology and to study the potential of this drawing as a means of development and communication of architectural ideas. In a first moment, the concept of traditional method of designing in architecture is clarified and the possible influences of drawing in the project are discussed, as a way of seeing and a way of realizing, that is, ways of thinking, while drawing is understood as a graphic translation of an architectural idea that the drawing itself helps to develop. In a second moment, dedicated to the study of the relationship between drawing and project in the work of three twentieth-century architects, we seek to discover the project in the drawing of these architects, or in other words, to glimpse and discuss the ideas that their drawings reveal. The approach to the work of Le Corbusier, Aldo Rossi, and Álvaro Siza will allow us to understand three particular points of view on the relationship between drawing and project in the exercise of architecture. The three texts concur to defend the reading of reality and history as a starting point for architecture, understanding drawing, firstly, as a way to apprehend reality and history, and secondly, as a means of transposing the lessons of the past to the project, as an instrument for recomposing and transforming the elements that constitutes the architect's memory, which is the main material of the project. Through the reflection on the drawing-project of the chosen architects, it is intended, on the one hand, to clarify a personal way of designing architecture where hand drawing is an essential tool, and on the other hand, the architect's drawings are considered as a possible gateway to their ideas, to the fundamentals of their architecture, believing that from the interaction between the different ideas studied here may emerge the foundations of a future architectural practice.