The Significance of Drawing and Art Elements in Design Activities of Architecture. Egghead

Abstract

Drawing is an essential tool of creativity for architects in the process of documenting imagination, information or ideas on paper, for further development. Art elements such as line, shapes, and forms are channels for developing concepts which culminate, into an effective presentation of architectural design. It is obvious that the importance of art in design cannot be over emphasized, but the application of these elements of art to achieve a desirable result in design is not well understood by many students of Architecture; most times it is misapplied. The paper is based on literature review as well as 26 years of auto ethnographic+ transactions with students of architecture. It has been observed that students are unable to translate ideas through drawing into concrete design. As such this paper looks into the process of using elements of art as a panacea for solving design problems in architecture. It further goes on to explain how these elements of art can be manipulated by architecture students to produce a pragmatic design.