The Model as an Introduction to Graphic Learning: A Teaching Experience

The graphic knowledge of new students entering architecture schools shows an alarming lack of ability to tackle, with solvency, some of the subjects taught during the first year of their academic training, even in later years. This situation, together with the limited time available, makes it necessary to rethink and formulate new learning models. After years of experimenting with the subject of Graphic Ideation and Introduction to the Architectural Project, a new systematic approach to learning about graphics has been introduced, consisting of prior work with the model, understanding it as an architectural model in its different scales. This methodological innovation in the course has acted as a fundamental support for implementing, forcing learning and justifying the need for this absent knowledge. The model is presented not as the result of a process, but as a path in itself, where the students discover, as necessary, the graphic tools that will help them to shape this model, and it will be during this process that the student discovers the importance of graphic knowledge. The results obtained using this teaching reformulation surpass those achieved in previous courses, opening up a new path of exploration in the teaching of drawing.