There was a time when in the Faculty of Architecture you had to learn to draw, and draw as an architect, not as a painter. Drawing meant knowing how to manage space, a necessary prerequisite to then be able to create something in three dimensions. Space is geometry, materials, proportions, light, colors.
Today too many students become architects despite being completely illiterate in space and design.
In the Faculty of Architecture in Florence, a remarkable tradition of architectural drawing existed until about the 2000s. I am grateful to a great teacher, Carlo Maggiora, who educated us in drawing.
His early lessons were about educating gesture; because the piano is not played with your fists. Here I report some initial exercises. These and the examples that will follow are works of students in the first two years of the course of study, and so we note some typical mistakes and naiveté. But the path they have started is the right one.
