Drawing: A Tool for the Development of Spatial Skills

Abstract

What is the relationship between thought and the act of drawing? What happens
on the cognitive level when we draw? To approach the importance of drawing to
architectonic education and practice, this article examines some of the cognitive
mechanisms associated with the act of drawing, using examples of technical drawings
to place special emphasis on what and how certain spatial skills are developed.
After considering the idea of drawing as a way of learning and establishing spatial
relationships, it argues that, in architecture, the imagination does not function as a
clear visualization, but as a set of multimodal space-time patterns.