English

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Department of Drawing (UZ)

The home faculty only

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To be awarded the credits, students must submit the drawings from the practical classes from all thematic blocks including the final work and home assignments. Students will obtain specific requirements for all submitted works and the total number in written form at the beginning of the semester. For example, 12 drawings from the classes, 3 home assignments, colloquium on the selected exhibitions or other cultural perceptions.
Students get marks for the quality of submitted drawings and the development during the semester focusing on absorption or originality.
Students will attend the introductory lecture and the compulsory practicals. Two absences in the semester are tolerated, excuses and more absences in case of serious cases will be discussed with the teacher individually.
Options to compensate for the absence - attend parallel practical classes, individual work on the drawings.
In the case of a student's apology and with approval of the subject guarantor, personal attendance may be substituted with online attendance in the classes.

The aim of the course is to learn to draw in hand/sketch an architectural concept or situation which is factually correct and has aesthetic quality. The sub-aim is to learn how to evoke and develop an idea via the process of sketching, how to make it more accurate via drawing, how to cultivate the depicted phenomenon, how to capture the overall idea via drawing methods, and how to use the graphic methods as perspective, axonometry, and orthogonal projection. Some practical lessons are aimed to map the possibilities of drawing methods, to increase the sensitivity, and to enhance the imagination. Further aim is to cultivate the perception of the image of the reality and the representation of the reality, among other things by visiting the suitable exhibitions and studying sources.

• Students will attain the ability to aptly depict the spatial architectural concepts developed with aesthetic quality.
• Students will attain the ability to depict a spatial situation according to the assigned schema or oral assignment.
• Students will learn to work with concepts/thoughts/ideas via the drawing process and how to develop it.
• Students will familiarize themselves with various possibilities of drawing and the work with composition in order to achieve the intended expression.
• Students will understand the overlap with other parts of the life, and will learn to use them as an inspiration for their architectural thinking.
• Students will get insight into the discipline of drawing and its potential to explore and learn from it, will familiarize with distinctive personalities of fine art and architecture who have distinctively influenced this discipline.
• Students will learn to hold a dialogue – to see and understand the results and the potential of their own work and how to react to them.

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