| Course Unit Title | ARCHITECTURAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS III |
| Course Unit Code | APX113 |
| Course Unit Details | Int.M. Architectural Engineering (Required Courses) - BA Architecture (Required Courses) - |
| Number of ECTS credits allocated | 5 |
| | Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:- Define general ideas, methods, techniques and issues of sketching as a way of communication of a visual language, presentation of ideas, and rendering of expression.
- Identify the use and need of drawing in visualizing concepts and plans in art and architecture and recognize how these could be translated and actualised in reality.
- Apply drawing skills in order to examine and solve advanced technical, compositional and conceptual problems.
- Analyze the significance and meaning of perspective drawing and pictorial space and experiment by questioning spacial relations conceptually and in representation.
- Create with alternative methods of composition, by constructing new ideas using issues of conventional rendering systems, and invent how these could be applied in expressing innovative ideas.
- Evaluate the outcome of their work, justify the solutions to their drawing projects and appraise the significance of drawing in the advancement of their visual language.
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| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face |
| Prerequisites | NONE | Co-requisites | NONE |
| Recommended optional program components | NONE |
| Course Contents | This course explores the representational processes architects use in both the conception and communication of their work. Students are introduced to the various architectural drawing conventions, to freehand drawing media and techniques and to creative drawing as a means of exploring and communicating architectural interpretations and design ideas. Representations are expressions of ideas and their use impart additional meaning and context to the design results they seek to describe. The course consists of in and out of class exercises in free-hand perspective and experimental drawing techniques often focusing on objects or the constructions built in their studio class, leading to advanced compositional results. This studio course aims at developing students’ capabilities of executing a broad range of architectural communication tasks, especially in the creative drawing and visual communications. Project objectives are designed to be of close relevance, complement, and parallel to other subject areas of the course, and to integrate the creative skills into a comprehensive capability to develop and communicate architectural ideas and designs with intelligence, precision, and originality.
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| Recommended and/or required reading: |
| Textbooks | - Peter Cook, Drawing: The Motive Force of Architecture (John Wiley& Sons, 2008)
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| References | - Neil Spiller, Visionary Architecture: Blueprints of the Modern Imagination (Thames and Hudson: Reprint Edition, 2007)
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| Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The taught part of course is delivered to the students by means of lectures, presentations and demonstrations but mainly though their studio practices. Students go though personal tutoring, group critiques and final assessments.
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| Assessment methods and criteria | | Exercises | 10% | | Mid-term presentation 1 | 15% | | Mid-term presentation 2 | 15% | | Class Participation | 20% | | Final Presentation | 40% |
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| Language of instruction | Greek |
| Work placement(s) | NO |
