The geometry of the words
integrated project in the first course of architecture
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5821/jida.2022.11594Keywords:
typography, graphic design, theory, composition, readingAbstract
Trying to solve problems detected in the students who start the Architecture degree (difficulties in reading comprehension and written expression and lack of knowledge of graphic design) we have been carrying out an exercise for three years in which we collaborate with theoretical and practical courses. In the courses of Anthropology and Contemporary Art and Architecture, they work on theoretical texts. The Geometry and Form Laboratory course provides the compositional bases of a panel. The student works on one of the texts, selects a part of it and thinks about how to reflect its content using the letters as an object, in a graphic way, to design an A2 size poster in which the content of the text is transmitted. The posters serve as an initiation for students in graphic design, they help them to abstract the texts and reach their content.
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