AWSS1001 Architectural Sketching & Drawing

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AWSS1001 Architectural Sketching & Drawing Semester 1, 2026 | 6 credit points
Unit Coordinator: Koji Ryui
consultation hours: by appointment

Tutors: 

Melody Willis

Daniel Hollier

Allan Rand

Tango Conway

Maya Barnstone

It is students’ responsibility to make sure enrolment details are correct and properly resolved before the census date. Please manage your status through the Sydney Student portal: https://sydney.edu.au/students/log-in-to-university-systems/log-in-to-sydney-student.html

2. SCHEDULE

This Schedule may be adjusted for each session. Please refer weekly to information on Canvas for any changes and updates.

WEEK / DATE


WORKSHOP DETAILS
ASSESSMENT TASKS /STUDENTS TO PREPARE
Week 1
LINE
Studio intro, contour drawing, gesture drawing, negative space
journal: refer to CANVAS online for details
1. read: Bannon, E "Drawing in the Digital Age" in Treib, Marc (2008) Drawing/Thinking, Routledge, pp112-120
2. Research 2 x architects
3. read: Jenkins, E 2013, 'Corresponding Solid and Void', in Drawn to design, pp256–266
4. Google map: positive/negative drawing (refer to Jenkins text)
5. Weekly reflection
Assessment 1 TASKS START & Journal given
Week 2
PERSPECTIVE 1 & 2 POINT INTERIORS
Drawing interiors, measuring to calculate distance and length journal:
1. read: Ching, ‘Perspective Drawings’, Design Drawing, pp223- 239
2. 2 x perspective drawings with ruler: 1 x interior, 1 x exterior
3. Weekly reflection
Material fee due
Week 3
PERSPECTIVE 1 & 2 POINT FREEHAND EXTERIORS
Building line and plane, perspective drawing in the field
journal:
1. Jenkins, E 2013, ‘Building A Drawing, Line and Time Budgets,Drawing the Lines’, Drawn to design, pp24-27, 36-37
2. Jenkins reading response
3. Line budgets drawings
4. Weekly reflection
EARLY FEEDBACK TASK:
In-class progress review
Week 4
VALUE (TONE)
Tonal value scale, dramatic light, observing where light falls on an object journal:
1. read: Ching, ‘Creating Values’ in Design Drawing, Wiley & Sons Jenkins reading response
2. Weekly reflection
Assessment preparation
Detailed info on Canvas in Assessments section.
Week 5
ASSESSMENT 1
Upload your PDF to Canvas the night before the start of your class. See Assessment details on Canvas.
Assessment 1 due: 25%
Week 6
COLOUR
Optical mixing with coloured pencil, designing with the grid journal:
1. Colour and design testing
2. read: Ball, Philip Bright Earth, the Invention of Colour
Weekly reflection
Bring your own set of coloured pencils.
All make for next week:A flexible L-shaped viewfinder, instructions on CANVAS
MID-SEMESTER BREAK
Universities Australia Common Vacation Week
Week 7
SERIAL VISIONS
Perspective and tone, hatching, cross-hatching, stippling.
Using a viewfinder. Using black pens to develop tone. journal:
1. Render the one object experimenting in 4 techniques: hatching, cross hatching, stippling, combination. For hatching techniques, refer to reading from Week 4: Ching, ‘Creating Values’ in Design Drawing, Wiley & Sons.
2. Read: Cullen, Gordon 1961 Townscape Serial Vision, The Concise Townscape, Routledge.
3. Weekly reflection
Bring in your own fine black ink pens this week.
Week 8
ORTHOGRAPHIC – PLAN, SECTION, ELEVATION
Orthographic fundamentals journal:
1. 3 drawings: plan section, axonometric
2. read: Jenkins, E 2013, 'Facing the building' in Drawn to
design, analyzing architecture through freehand drawing, Birkhauser Basel, pp152–173
3. Weekly reflection

WEEK 9 JOURNAL TASK can also be completed during the break
Week 9
SECTION DRAWING
Drawing landscape sections integrating capsicum drawings as built form
Journal:
1. Mo Zell reading response
2. 2 x axonometric drawings
3. read: Zell, Mo, 'Introduction to axonometric,' The Architectural Drawing Course, pp74–81
4. Weekly reflection
For Week 10:
Select three drawings made during the course.
Make 6 x A3 black & white photocopies of these drawings and bring in next week for collage + Bring tinted paper but not too many colours, just tinted.
Week 10
2D COMPOSITION
Collage and composition, El Lissitsky’s PROUNS. Journal:
1. read: Ching, ‘Drawing Composition’, Design Drawing, various excerpts, see CANVAS.
2. Collect examples for each compositional principle
3. Weekly reflection

Week 11
MODEL
3D Construction, model making, Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbau. Journal:
1. Weekly reflection

Week 12
TONAL DRAWING FROM 3D MODEL
Drawing as communication, composition, lighting Journal:
1.Weekly reflection
2.Prep for verbal presentation

Week 13
 NO CLASS
Week 14
 Non-teaching study week
Week 15
ASSESSMENT 2 PRESENTATIONS
Upload PDF the night before your class (due 23:59).
See Assessment details on Canvas.
JOURNAL submitted
Upload PDF the night before your class (due 23:59).
Assessment 2 due: 35%
Journal due: 40%

2026-03-19