The way in which a project is drawn and represented illustrates the content and evolution of its architecture, the architect's statement and its overall intention.

Plan-drawing represents the horizontal section through the building, projected in graphic form on a 2D plane. In this way, somehow anonymously, it shows all the necessary information for imagining, understanding and producing architecture. In spite of being an abstract geometry of reality, it depicts reality as precisely as possible, showing everything that is there: physical materials and details that enclose spaces, meetings between different materials showing how architectural elements are put together, it shows construction, stairs and infrastructure, proportions, space and light and even how people live in this space.

The lines of a drawing are not just lines. We always imagine them as translated into objects and spaces. In our minds, we connect these lines of drawing into mass, space, movements and actions of people. Different thicknesses of lines distinguish what is cut in section or seen in elevation. We could read scale, proportion, light changes during the year, all of which allows us to imagine and experience space, atmosphere and material, and create beautiful architecture.

The precision and imaginativeness of the drawn information tells about the architectural content and provides an opportunity to understand, interpret and relate to the world of architecture, both intellectually, technically and emotionally. Planning is an analytical tool to study and develop in-depth the architecture of a project. Therefore, the technique of making the plan should be used precisely and efficiently, in keeping with its specific potential.

The course is imagined in two overlapping parts, which will run parallel to each other throughout the semester. In the more theoretically and practically grounded first part, the students will briefly learn about the importance, development and structure of plan drawing during the history of architecture, from Renaissance to today. The more practically oriented second part will be concerned with discussion, study and redrawing of the case study plans of architecture by Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn, in connection with the new book project on the architect. 

https://sverrefehnbook.website/

Teaching assistant: Aleksandra Ognjanov.