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SFA-91 | Perspective

Compulsory Course | Hours/Week: 2C+1L | ECTS Credits: 3

Titular:

conf.dr.arh. Iulius Ionescu

Teaching Staff:

asist. dr. arh. Sorana Untanu, asist. arh. Valeria Potenchi, prep. arh. Ioana Avram, prep. arh. Elvira Selischi

Learning outcomes:

- The knowledge of the graphic methods to represent the space in the perspective picture.
- The understanding of the perspective mechanism as instrument to educate the “view in space”.
- The skills to elaborate architectural perspectives fast and expressively.

Content:

Lectures:
Projection systems. Proprieties of conical projection;
Human sight and mechanism of perspective;
Perception in depth and classification of perspective;
Free perspective on vertical picture;
Measurement points and distance point;
Frontal perspective;
Drawing of shadows in perspective on vertical picture;
“Bird’s eye view” – valuing of shadow and light in depth;
Perspective and color;
Circle and sphere in perspective. Limits of front perspective;
Rendering the depth and intrinsic scale of perspective;
Mirroring against a vertical picture;
Perspective on a reclined picture;
Restitution of perspective.
Practical exercises:
Mixed method of building the perspective.
Observation by optical instruments and sketch in free drawing.
Perspective with two vanishing points at 1.80 m.
Perspective with “over-raised horizon”.
Front perspective (from within).
Methods to render depth.
Color in hand-drawn perspective.

Teaching Method:

Lectures with slides, computer projections, individual drawing, discussions, and correction

Assessment:

The average of the practical exercises marks = 50%; the final test mark = 50%.

Bibliography:

ENACHE, M.; IONESCU I. - Geometrie descriptivă şi perspectivă, Ed. Did.şi Ped., Bucureşti, 1983;
TEODORU, Horia - Perspectiva, vol. 1+2, Ed. de Stat pentru Lit. şi Artă, 1958;
GHEOGHIU, Adrian - Tehnica desenului perspectiv, Ed. Tehnică, 1959;
Perspectiva, breviar IAIM 1980.

Notes:

Practical exercises are correlated with “Shape Study” and "3D Modelling". Only one work can be redone at the end of the semester. For the final examination, the student should come up with his portfolio and two further drawings.