Resumen de Analog Drawing – Digital Drawing: The Architectural Virtual Model as More Than a Technological Implementation

Javier Francisco Raposo Grau, María Asunción Salgado de la Rosa, Belén Butragueño Díaz-Guerra, Blanca Raposo Sánchez

• Documenting, analyzing and designing architecture are activities that can be linked to art and technique. The humanistic, technical and conjectural training of architects has this ambiguity between artistic and technical aspects, which are intrinsically linked to the use of a language. The language that makes the architectural project possible is the architectural graphic language, and its tool is architectural drawing in its different manifestations and modalities. Drawing is responsible for acquiring knowledge, analysis and experience of the built environment from its conceptual phases to the final ones linked to the constructive, representative and communicative processes. It is our job, as agents involved in this process, to know how to adapt the graphic tools of thought to the appropriate graphic modality. Analog and digital media transgress their boundaries in this process of adaptation, which is highly productive and should be assumed by architects, in a natural way, in their architectural production procedures, supported by drawing as a means of knowledge, demonstrating the ability to adapt to the technological and social changes of recent decades.