Up close and from inside: connecting drawings to history(ies)

Authors

  • Ethel Pinheiro Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Gustavo Badolati Racca Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Niuxa Dias Drago Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Sergio Rego Fagerlande Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Keywords:

Drawing, Architecture, Urbanism, History, Urban experience

Abstract

The strategy developed for intertwining three disciplines from the first-semester of the Architecture and Urbanism course at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU-UFRJ) during 2018 and 2019 (Observational Drawing I, Art and Architecture History I, and Theories and Histories of Urbanism I) expands the creative and mediating role of observational/exploration drawing in architecture. The strategy also highlights the need to experience the city through a non-linear discourse in the history of architecture and urbanism, consistent with our contemporary aesthetic situation. Through the development of an appropriate program for each discipline, with intersections at crucial learning moments (assessments and joint external classes), the process of drifting through the city was the starting point. By recognizing the narrable components of the city, recorded through drawings and texts in crafted sketchbooks, the students were able to build an architectural repertoire and explore their drawing language. Students took a deeper look at historical issues organized in axes of thought that permeate the whole process and which aligns with the current teaching methods practiced in many architecture and urbanism courses around the world. The result, recorded on ethnographic sketch boards and essays on the explored axes, demonstrates the richness of the strategy and validity of the method as a medium and facilitator of solutions.

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Author Biographies

Ethel Pinheiro, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

She is an architect and urbanist and Doctor in Architecture. She is a Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she coordinates the Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism, and is the Editor-in-Chief of its scientific journal Cadernos PROARQ. She conducts research on ​​architectural representation with an emphasis on urban space planning and design, technical and observation drawing, and urban anthropology.

Gustavo Badolati Racca, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

He is an architect and urbanist, Master and Doctor in Urbanism. He is a professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he develops research on urban space representations in various media. He has professional and academic experience in architectural design and urban planning, as well as in graphic representation and expression in architecture and urbanism.

Niuxa Dias Drago, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

She is an architect and urbanist, an actress, and a Master and Ph.D. in Performing Arts. She is a professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She studies the history of Architecture, of Theater Space and Rio de Janeiro's.

Sergio Rego Fagerlande, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

He is an architect and urbanist, Master and Doctor in Urbanism. He is a professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and researcher in the Graduate Program in Urbanism at the same institution, since 2014. He studies tourism and cities, focusing on tourism in favelas and tourism and historical heritage in the city's suburbs.

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Published

2020-07-20

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 20 (2020): V!20 Question of Method

Section

Ágora