Architecture, Landscape & Visual Arts

Unit Outline

Drawing History
ARCT1010
SEM-1, 2015
Campus: Crawley
Unit Coordinator: Mr Philip Goldswain

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Unit details
Unit title
Unit code
Availability
Location

Drawing History
ARCT1010
SEM-1, 2015 (23/02/2015 - 20/06/2015)
Crawley

Credit points

Mode

Face to face

Contact details
Faculty
School
School website
Unit coordinator
Email
Telephone
Consultation hours
Lecturers

Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts

Architecture, Landscape & Visual Arts
http://www.alva.uwa.edu.au/
Mr Philip Goldswain
philip.goldswain@uwa.edu.au
6488 2586
By appointment

Name

Position

Email

Mr Philip Goldswain

Unit
Coordinator/Lecturer
Lecturer

philip.goldswain@uwa.edu.au

Mr Romesh
Goonewardene
Ms Sophie Giles
Prof Nigel Westbrook

Lecturer/Associate
Dean
Lecturer

Telephone
Number

6488 2586 Room

3.14
romesh.goonewardene@uwa.edu.au 6488 1559 Room
2.13
sophie.giles@uwa.edu.au
6488 1373 Room
2.17
nigel.westbrook@uwa.edu.au
6488 2592 Room
2.09

Tutors
Unit contact hours

TBC

Online handbook

http://units.handbooks.uwa.edu.au/units/ARCT/ARCT1010

Lectures: 2 hrs per week

Monday, 1.00-1.45pm, Ross Lecture Theatre, Physics Building, Main Campus
Wednesday, 2.00-2.45pm, Clews Lecture Theatre, Physics Building, Main Campus
Practical (Studio-based workshop session): 3hrs for wk 2-4, Room 2.10/2.11 ALVA Building
Tutorials: 2hrs for wk5-10, Room 2.10/2.11 ALVA Building

Unit description
This unit comprises an introduction to the history of architectural design through a lecture-based survey course and a series of student
projects that investigate significant design projects to provide a basic understanding of the methodological and historical development
of architectural design. Through a series of drawn investigations and analysis of selected architectural design projects, students are
introduced to the significance of architectural drawing as unique, disciplinary-specific representation systems, through which architects
both investigate the application of design concepts and document their design problems and processes. Supplemented by
diagramming and writing, the unit introduces students, within a broad historical framework, to the specific composition and materiality
of key examples of architectural production.

Learning outcomes
Students are able to (1) have basic knowledge of the built, social and historical context of significant architectural architecture projects
and become familiarised with the history of architectural drawing and representational systems; (2) acquire basic drawing skills
including the conventions of architectural drawing as well as analytic diagramming; (3) be conversant with bibliographical research
techniques, and thus be able to use a range of visual and literacy sources to develop visual and textual analysis of architecture; and (4)
develop basic communication skills in interpersonal relationships, oral discussion and critical analysis of works of architecture.

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Unit structure
Lectures: 2 per week
Monday, 1.00-1.45pm, Ross Lecture Theatre, Physics Building, Main Campus
Wednesday, 2.00-2.45pm, Ross Lecture Theatre, Physics Building, Main Campus
Practical (Studio-based workshop sessions): 3hrs for wk 2-4, Room 2.10/2.11 ALVA Building
Tutorials: 2hrs for wk5-10, Room 2.10/2.11 ALVA Building

Unit schedule
Week

Day Date

Lecture Topic

Lecturer

Mon 23rd
February

INTRODUCTION
Drawing Architecture and Drawing History

Philip
Goldswain

Wed 25th
February

HISTORY
The Tribal Hearth: Polis, Agora, and Temple:
Classical Greece and Hellenism (80030 BC)
Library Introduction
DRAWING
The Plan
HISTORY
The Architecture of the Roman Empire: Rome
(300 BC 300 AD)
DRAWING
The Section (and Elevation)

Romesh
Goonewardene

Nigel
Westbrook

Mon 16th
March

HISTORY
The Architecture of the Roman Empire: Byzantium
(313 - 1432AD)
DRAWING
Projections

Wed 18th
March
Mon 23rd
March
Wed 25th
March
Mon 30th
March
Wed 1st
April

HISTORY
China: the Forbidden City
DRAWING
Perspective
HISTORY:
Islam: Muhammad to the Fall of Granada
DRAWING
Hybrids
HISTORY
The Gothic Cathedral

Romesh
Goonewardene
Philip
Goldswain
Romesh
Goonewardene
Philip
Goldswain

THEMATIC
Context
HISTORY
The Renaissance (1420 1500, Brunelleschi,
Alberti and Palladio)
THEMATIC
Scale

Philip
Goldswain
Philip
Goldswain

Islam

Philip
Goldswain

The Gothic

Mon 2rd
March
Wed 4th
March

Mon 9th
March

Wed 11th
March
4

6
PROSH
Lecture is on
Classes only
cancelled in
mornings
NON TEACHING
WEEK
7

Mon 6th Fri 10th

April
Mon 13th
April
Wed 15th
April
Mon 20st
April

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Philip
Goldswain

Practical

Tutorials
Reading
Topics

IN CLASS
DRAWING
The Plan

Romesh
Goonewardene
Philip
Goldswain

Philip
Goldswain

IN CLASS Greece
DRAWING
The
Section

IN CLASS Rome
DRAWING
The
Projection

Byzantium

China

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ANZAC Not a
University Holiday

10

Wed 22nd
April
Mon 27th
April

HISTORY
The Baroque: Rome and the North
THEMATIC
Space Time and Architecture

Sophie Giles

Wed 29th
April
Mon 4th
May
Wed 6th
May

HISTORY
The Architecture of Reason
THEMATIC
Figure Ground
HISTORY
The 19th Century City: Urbanisation and
Globalisation

Philip
Goldswain
Philip
Goldswain
Philip
Goldswain

Philip
Goldswain

Renaissance

Mannerism

Teaching and learning responsibilities

Teaching and learning strategies
Team Analysis Exercise
The first assessment item introduces students to the research techniques, group work and the orthographic set of drawings - plan,
section, and elevation. These skills will be utilized by the individual student in the subsequent projects.

Comparative Analysis Exercise

Using the orthographic drawings completed for Assignment 1 students will build on this set to compare their assigned building with
another. Instead of the orthographic set students will drawing synthetic drawings. These drawings that are hybrids of orthographic
drawings and other types projections and perspectives that will be used to reveal the spatial, formal, material and structural qualities
of the buildings under comparison.

Tutorial Exercises
Each week from week 3, students are obliged to bring a finished take-home exercise to the tutorial. Exercises will not be accepted via
e-mail, only in person, and only on the day they are due. Exercises will be marked +, +-, or -. The total number of points for all exercises
is 20%. A student can have a maximum of two exercises marked - before receiving a mark of 0% for this component. Each exercise
marked - before this threshold carries a penalty of 2.5%, and each exercise marked +- a penalty of 1%, to be deducted from the total of
20%.

Assessment
Assessment overview
Typically this unit is assessed in the following way(s): (1) folios; (2) tutorial exercises; and (3) an examination. Further information is
available in the unit outline.

Assessment mechanism
# Component

Weight Due Date

1 Team Analysis
30%
2 Weekly Tutorial Exercises 20%
3 Comparative Analysis
50%

Relates To Outcomes

Before 4pm Friday 20th March, 2015 Outcomes 1,2,3,4

Tutorial Sessions wk3 - wk10
Outcomes 1,2,3,4
Before 4pm Friday 15th May, 2015 Outcomes 1,2,3,4

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Assessment items
Item Title

Description

Submission Procedure for Assignments

Team
Analysis

Teams of four/five students undertake a drawn and

written analysis of a specific architectural design. Within
the group, individual students will be responsible for one
aspect of the analysis and drawing. Each group will
submit a digital folio of drawings. This assessment
directly tests the students communication skills and
their ability to undertake historical analysis and research
and basic drawing skills. This assessment emphasises
interpersonal relations and oral discussion.
The assessment has specific criteria designed to test
the students ability to undertake basic written and drawn
analysis of the formal, spatial, historical and theoretical
characteristics of two pieces of architectural design.
This work (which culminates in a digital folio) builds and
expands on the Team Analysis so that individual
students will have undertaken all aspects of analysis,
investigation and drawing by the unit's conculsion.
Each week, from week 3, a written or drawn exercise
(not more than an A3 sheet and/or a number of
paragraphs long) is to be completed by the student. The
exercises help students develop both written and drawn
research and analytical skills, reflect on lectures and
readings and prepare for the Comparative Analysis folio.

Team Analysis
submission due before 4pm Friday 20th March, before
to LMS ARCT1010 Drawing History Dropbox

Comparative
Analysis

Weekly
Tutorial
Exercises

Comparative Drawings due before 4pm Friday, 15th May

to LMS ARCT1010 Drawing History Dropbox

The schedule of exercises will be distributed in the

tutorial and via LMS. The exercises can only be
submitted in person in the tutorial the week they are due.
No late or electronic submissions are accepted, except
in the case of documented illness.

Textbooks and resources

Recommended texts
Kostof, S. History of Architecture: Settings & Rituals, Oxford University Press, London, 1995
Ching, S, Jarzombek M, Prakash V. A Global History of Architecture, John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, 200, c2011 2nd ed
Janson, H. W. History of Art, 8th edition, Thames & Hudson, London, 2011

Evans, R Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays, AA Publications, London, 1997
Evans, R The Projective Cast; Architecture and Its Three Geometries, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1995
McCarter, R and Pallasmaa J, Understanding architecture : a primer on architecture as experience London, Phaidon, 2012

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Technical requirements
You will need some of the following items during the course of the semester. Some of you will already be familiar with these things from
Studio Fundamentals ARCT1000. You will be advised you on what you will need. Some of the items can be bought progressively over
time as needed but you should endeavor to have at least a basic set of tools to use at the start of the semester. Discounts at supply
outlets tend to be better at the start of semester.
A base kit for controlled drawing would include an adjustable set square, a scale rule, pencils, tracing paper and masking tape. A small
sketchbook for ongoing recording of ideas and notes is useful and can become a key in the process work component of submissions.
Other suggested design tools include:
- A lightweight toolbox (for storage of drawing and model-making equipment)
- Adjustable set square
- Scale rule 1:5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 (combined)
- Tracing paper
- Masking tape
- Sketchbook
- A3 cardboard folio (for process work)
- Set of Rotring drafting pens (0.18, 0.25, 0.35, 0.5 and/or 1.0)
- Compass with ink pen and pencil head
- Clutch pencils in a range of sizes (0.3, 0.5, 2.0)
- Sharpener for large clutch pencils
- Replacement leads for the clutch pencils (in a range of hardness and colours)
- Box of quality coloured pencils (Faber Castell or similar)
- Rotring ink eraser
- Pencil eraser
- Scalpel and blades
- Scissors
- Razor blades for hand held shaver
- Soft blue malleable eraser
- Erasing shield (thin foil template)
- Model making card
- Circle template
- Flexible curve
- Steel ruler and cutting mat
- Model making glue - aquadhere
-Tweezers

Additional resources and reading

Learning Management System
All enrolled students have access to LMS (https://www.lms.uwa.edu.au/login.php). This site will be used to host the online lectures, for
posting of notices, general unit information and supplementary course material (eg lecture handouts, useful web links, printable
manual), answers to pre-lab, lab and post-lab exercises, practice MCQs, continuous assessment results and to host a discussion
forum. Students are encouraged to pose questions about course content on the discussion forum of the site so that all class members
can view and contribute to the discussion

Other important information

Studios are expected to be left clean and tidy. Students must remove all personal property immediately after the submission of their
folio. If the content of a folio is used for exhibition then the student must write their name on the back of the work so that when the
exhibition is demounted collection is simplified. If staff or the Faculty wish to reserve work for reproduction and/or accreditation
purposes then this should be negotiated with individual students.

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