ABSTRACT
This article aims to present some considerations about the use of other perceptive modalities in the teaching of observational drawing. In view of the resistance of a good part of the students enrolled in the courses of Architecture and Urbanism to the drawing learning, it was assumed that, in the teaching of this practice, it is necessary to overcome preconceptions that lead students to a risky belief that the ideal is to produce a graphical representation only committed with the verisimilitude of visual images. In order to investigate this assumption, some didactic experiments were accomplished in the elective course Urban Sketches of the Design, Representation and Technology Department of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (DPRT-FAU-UFJF), held in the year 2016. Under a Phenomenological approach, the discipline was an alternative to traditional drawing teaching. Thus, the methodology used includes a theoretical revision guided by the Phenomenological current of thought, based on the concept of embodied image; as well as an empirical description of the performed activities in the second class of the discipline, entitled “Overcoming traditional preconceptions”. Based on the statements made by students in class, as well as some images extracted from these exercises, it was confirmed that the results expected for this research respond adequately to the raised hypothesis.
