Urban Sketching. Drawing on Location as a Tool for Reading Architectural and Urban Contexts

Observational drawing ranks among the different features of drawing. It’s a basic exercise useful for learning to “see”: it introduces basic representative models of architecture and it seeks to develop an individual expression level that will allow students to achieve their own vision of architecture image. This approach is based on the use of drawing as thought, it goes beyond the role of tool and becomes the place where you generate forms. The paper builds on the experiences made with the students of the five year of the degree in Architecture from the University of Cagliari, during the course of Architectural Drawing and Surveying.