ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects on the importance of the traditional use of hand drawing among the new conception and architectonical design representation technologies. It explains that the innovation brought by digital media improved the architect and urbanist profession in quality and efficiency and directly affected the academic field. It reveals that new development narratives and new forms of representation collaborate with the comprehension of the design process, but points to trace standardization and data coding as a loss of individuality and personal brand, especially during the ideas creation stage. It defends the importance of traditional hand drawing, the croquis, as an individuality brand, expression of a time, drawing of the thought in process, and reflexive trace that experiments possibilities. The teaching ambit points to hand-drawing as the development of visual and spatial perception, creativity, intuition, and sensibility. It brings forward examples of architects that use croquis as a way to study and conceive a design. It concludes that hand drawing is a part of the architectonical doing, a method to think about the design and reflect critically, confounding itself with the design. It is essential to learn and teach architecture. It is the architect’s personal trace between tradition and the innovation of designing new spaces.
