Drawing Crystalline Geometries: From Form to Illusion

The analysis and exploration of crystalline networks or Cartesian spatial networks associated with geometric forms, together with their spatial dynamics and optical illusions caused by the genesis and manipulation of their representation, are a fundamental propaedeutic tool for architectural graphic expression applied to the study of geometry and drawing in broad spectrum as the technical basis of the discipline. In the initial subjects of architecture, largely graphic, acquiring skills requires effort, work and spatial vision that can be faced when knowledge is acquired and transmitted from sources tangent to the discipline itself. The brain learns and is activated when it is motivated and excited. For this, curiosity for drawing and its expressive and communicative potential is key. Providing graphic subjects with sources and “new and unpredictable stimuli” such as Riley’s abstract art and optical games for their communicative value and expectation, Jamnitzer’s geometric goldsmithing for its precise detail of the technical drawing of geometry, or Le Witt’s cubes for their value of growth and creation of spatial patterns, are three of the didactic and research tools under study in this research.