| Course Unit Title | ARCHITECTURAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS II |
| Course Unit Code | APX112 |
| Course Unit Details | Int.M. Architectural Engineering (Required Courses) - BA Architecture (Required Courses) - |
| Number of ECTS credits allocated | 4 |
| | Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:- Understand the basic concepts and terms relating to methods of representation. The drawing as a tool for creation and understanding. Learn the illustration and drawing instruments and materials used in the design.
- Solve simple visualization exercises on solids and simple buildings using plans, sections, elevations, axonometric and perspective views.
- Draw volumes from the third dimension to the second and from the second to the third, for the best performance of the volume.
- Draw the basic elements of the Architectural drawing.(symbols, scale, dimensions e.t.c.).
- Develop critical thinking on how to use a drawing as a tool o f representation for architects.
- Recognise the importance and usefulness of the final project and presentation. The final drawings as a means of communication and evaluation.
- Develop personal designing skills using elements in the drawing resulting from personal study and practice.
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| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face |
| Prerequisites | NONE | Co-requisites | NONE |
| Recommended optional program components | NONE |
| Course Contents | The course is an introduction to architectural drawing which is consisted by the representation of geometrical objects followed by the representation of solid architectural forms with the use of descriptive geometry.
Through a dense succession of pedagogical exercises this introductory course seeks to familiarize students with the basic design principles and the architectural design, using both two-dimensional and three-dimensional imaging.
The aim of the course is, at the end of the semester, students to have a solid understanding of all forms of representation, to be able to draw any given shape and especially to understand any design form, both two-dimensional, and three-dimensional.
At the same time the course aims to impart basic matters of architectural drawing , and enable students for the first time to understand the importance of drawing as an instrument of expression of the architect and not only as an instrument of representation of geometry.
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| Recommended and/or required reading: |
| Textbooks | - David Dernie, Architectural Drawing, 2010, Laurence King
- Lorraine Farrelly, Basics Architecture: Representational Techniques [Paperback], 2010, Laurence King
- Rendow Yee, Architectural Drawing: A Visual Compendium of Types and Methods [Paperback], 2008, Wiley; 4 edition4
- Francis D. K. Ching, Architectural Graphics [Paperback], 2009, John Wiley & Sons; 5th Edition edition
- Belardi, Paolo, Why Architects Still Draw, 2014, MIT Press
- Montague, John, Basic Perspective Drawing: A Visual Guide, 6th Edition, 2010, John Wiley & Sons, Inc
- Jenkins, Eric J., Drawn to Design: Analyzing Architecture Through Freehand Drawing, 2012, Birkhauser
- Mo Zell, The Architectural Drawing Course: Understand the Principles and Master the Practices [Paperback], 2008, Thames & Hudson
- Hertzberger Herman, Μαθήματα για σπουδαστές της αρχιτεκτονικής, 2002, Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις ΕΜΠ
- Ανθή-Μαρία Κουρνιάτη, Νίκος Κουρνιάτης, Η προοπτική στην αρχιτεκτονική απεικόνιση, 2011, Τζιόλα
- Ρεβιθιάδου Καίτη, Τάκα Ελένη, Προοπτική και Σκιαγραφία, 1984, Εκδοτικός Οίκος Αδελφοί Κυριακίδη, Θεσσαλονίκη
- Bernard Tschum, Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color, 2012, Rizzoli
- Elizabeth Smith, Case Study Houses, 2009, Tascen
- Τσιμπουράκης Δημήτρης, Στεφανάκη Μαρία, Λοντόρφος Ιωάννης, Αρχιτεκτονικό – Προοπτικό Σχέδιο, 2001, Οργανισμός Εκδόσεων Διδακτικών Βιβλίων
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| References | - Neil Spiller, Drawing Architecture, AD (Architectural Design Magazine) [Paperback], 2013
- Lecture notes
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| Planned learning activities and teaching methods | - Demonstration of the principles of all forms of representation is delivered to the students by electronic presentations by sketches on the whiteboard and by lecture notes.
- The students solve several drawing exercises of representation during classes under the supervision of the lecturer.
- Corrections of the exercises are given during the classes in private and group level.
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| Assessment methods and criteria | | Midterm exams | 10% | | Class participation | 20% | | Exercise 02 | 20% | | Exercise 03 | 20% | | Exercise 04 | 30% |
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| Language of instruction | Greek |
| Work placement(s) | NO |
