Il disegno dal vero: un approccio metodologico tra pratica e teoria

There is often talk of the usefulness of freehand drawing as a practice to be acquired in the training of students architects and engineers. In fact, in a reality that seems to have to proceed faster and faster to keep up with technological innovation, the idea of stopping for drawing could be looked at with suspicion and considered anachronistic with respect to the needs of the digital. Yet it remains an indispensable and very current skill, which therefore cannot be renounced. Freehand drawing, indeed, far from being an end in itself experience, is an unequalled aid in the educational process of architects and engineers who, guided by it, learn to look at, understand and interpret architecture, appropriating its geometries, its proportions, its measures, its qualities. In this sense, providing students with primary and instinctive graphic tools to decode the logic underlying architectures, engineering structures and, in general, projects with high compositional value, allows them to acquire the correct rules and techniques at the base of the work investigated, in an active knowledge's method. In this perspective, the didactic experiences carried out in the workshops addressed to the students of the “Drawing of Architecture I” courses, active at the five-year single-cycle master's degree in Building Engineering-Architecture of the Naples "Federico II" and Salerno University, appeared very effective. These activities, conducted in close synergy and bearers of interesting common reflections, have made it possible to make explicit the importance of stopping for observing the reality that surrounds us and which, only to a curious eye, reveals its intrinsic essence.