The idea about architectural tridimensional model.

Author(s)

Ana Carolina Formigoni Basso

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD)
• Defense date: 2005-12-06

Examining board members

Joubert José Lancha; Mário Henrique Simão D\'Agostino; Fábio Lopes de Souza Santos

• Advisor: Joubert José Lancha

Abstract

Apart from the creational process, natural to artistic activities, architecture has its own form of expressing itself. Its expression depends on a system based in graphic symbols and representative elements that translate, as clearly as possible, its architectural concept or idea. The convention depelopped to architectural language brought, besides an universalization of its terms, a specific and abstract form to express architecture, which is always present in its activity, since the moment of creation to its final representation, when it\'s ready to be executed. The system of architecture symbols, as we know it today, had it\'s initial theorization in the Renaissance period, that regard its most important means of representation: drawing and tridimensional model. Even though drawing is the most usual form to present architecture, the model also gained an important position in the ambit of architectural representation. This study intends to present, apart from a brief history of drawing, concerning its specific development to architecture or construction, the importance role of the model on the architect\'s profession, through the \"birth\" of tridimensional model in architecture - as we know it today. To reach such objective, an analysis of constructive activities in italian Renaissance was accomplished, also considering aesthetic theories that defined, along with other sciences, the basis to architectural knowledge. (AU)