IMProVe 2011 - Proceedings

Teaching Product Design and Drawing History
“Let's take a look to the project”
A. Giordano (a), L. Bifulco (a), F. Chiementin (a)
(a) Dip. di Architettura, Urbanistica e Rilevamento - University of Padova
Abstract:
Purpose:
The purpose of the research is the evaluation of new tools for the representation of the
architectural project and the impact they have for teaching students (architects and
engineers).
Method, Result, Discussion & Conclusion:
Through the comparison of operational methods of architecture firms and the latest
developments, in the market, for the architecture, we can understand and underline the
importance of geometry not only as way to communicate the mere shape of a buildinga,
but also as an opportunity to comprehend and to communicate each architecture that, as
such, is made of space. So the understanding of space becomes fundamental and
foundational training to the project of architecture, which certainly includes other factors,
but that makes it possible through its own space component.
Keywords: Geometry, Representation, Photomontage, Space
Corresponding Author: Andrea Giordano
Tel.: +39 3389187496, Fax.: +39 0498276738
e-mail: andrea.giordano@unipd.it
Address: Daur via venezia 1, Padova.
Parametric Cad in the teaching of drawing
for Mechanical Engineer
G. Defranco (a), L. Fuertes (a), S. Gavino (a), L. Lopresti (a), A. Ristevich (a)
(a) Cátedra de Gráfica para Ingeniería y Sistemas de Representación “C”, Facultad de Ingeniería, UID GIGA
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Argentina
Abstract:
For more than two decades, Computer Aided Design (CAD) has been increasingly taking
part in the teaching of drawing for mechanical engineers and similar areas. The number of
papers and communications presented by teachers of this area has increased in the last
three decades, in different specialized and general events such as engineering, and the
teaching of engineering congresses. 1 From the teaching point of view, the innovation has
been centered in the increasingly use of the most spread CAD software in the world. 2 The
use of it has tended to replace in a complete or parcial way the precision drawings, that
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