Drawing, processing, communicating: the architectural project as the origin of a graphic-plastic process. Educational implications

The main objective of the article is to establish the parallelism between the origin of the architectural project and the processes of artistic creation. Dynamic architectural configuration is presented as a series of open processes based on graphical actions. Imagination is established as the source and act of project desire, and the images are defined as organization and configuration diagrams of de imagination contents. The need to transform that first mental image, of imaginary trigger, into a productive architectural image. Architectural drawing is established as the appropriate mechanism for the conception of project, and the Formal Architectural Analysis as it’s conceptual tool. It concludes with the experience developed at the Drawing subject, Analysis and Ideation 2 (DAI 2), framing it’s teaching at the beginning of the project, and beyond the skills acquired at the Drawing subject, Analysis and Ideation 1 (DAI 1) all of it proving the task of the graphic work in the process of architectural creation.