El dibujo arquitectónicoCrisol de intenciones.

Resumen

This thesis was built on foundations the solidity of which is difficult to bring into doubt in the present day. If we accept: that logos is not reason but the discourse of reason, since reason always finds a symbolic medium through which to manifest itself; that the architectural design is already architecture as such; and that the drawing is inescapably present at all stages of the design process; then we are obliged to accept that: from the basis of reason, the most genuine activity of the architect (architectural action) is always manifested in a design (architectural graphic discourse) through drawing (architectural graphic expression), the symbolic medium of expression of the author's reason. Architectural drawing is in effect the object of this work. Architectural drawing in all its breadth and all its depth, in all its potential. It should be considered, over and above its obvious instrumental or technical value, as a veritable language, the indispensable symbolic medium for the manifestation of architectural reason. And consequently, it states its constituent and determining role in the entirety of the design process. Because there is one moment of this, at the beginning, the conception, when the architectural drawing displays all its power. And yet, clearly, it is the stage which to date has been least dealt with, least explored, despite the fact that without considering it rationally it is impossible to understand the specific nature of architectural drawing. The thesis is organized in two Parts, together with an Introduction, Conclusions and a Bibliography. The objective of the First Part is to clarify certain fundamental issues and the author's position regarding them, so that in the Second Part, the core of the work, neither are they taken for granted nor do they require digressions or straying from the point in hand, which given the density of the text, would hinder or even prevent the unity of the discourse, and therefore the possibility of following it. The Second Part focuses on architectural drawing as the key to architectural action and the crucible of its corresponding design. Thus, if the conceptional drawing is the preshaping of the architectural intention, the articulation of the design is the shaping of this intention, and its interpretation will be a reshaping of everything done up to then. The drawings that accompany the text are in no way ornamental; on the contrary, they constitute a discourse of their own, independent of the verbal one. The two discourses, each in their own language, respond to the same intention, without reflecting each other at any given point.