Course detail

Art Techniques – Drawing 2

FA-VK2-NAcad. year: 2025/2026

The course builds on instruction from the first year and focuses primarily on understanding drawing as a tool of communication.
Teaching is divided into three blocks: mastering more advanced drawing exercises such as modeling space with light and shadow, studying an architectural or artistic element, or designing one’s own spatial composition; further drawing assignments carried out en plein air, with an emphasis on capturing spatial relationships, cultivating drawing expression, and understanding drawing as an analytical tool for grasping reality. The course also includes a final project in the form of a take-home assignment, which will be specified at the beginning of the semester and consulted on an ongoing basis.

The instruction combines traditional methods of academic drawing with contemporary approaches such as urban sketching and the narrative potential of drawing, and is primarily aimed at developing the ability to communicate student’s ideas convincingly through drawing.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

To be awarded course credit, students must submit a collection of drawings from in-class exercises and homework assignments representing all thematic blocks, including the final project.
The grading includes both the quality of the submitted drawings and the student’s progress over the course of the semester, taking into account engagement, effort, and originality.

Students are required to attend the introductory lecture and to participate in the practical classes. Three absences per semester are tolerated. Excused absences and arrangements for more frequent absences due to serious reasons are possible by agreement with the instructor; alternatively, an absence may be compensated by completing the exercise as a take-home assignment. A higher number of absences may affect the final evaluation.

Aims

Students will acquire more advanced drawing skills leading toward independent and free representation of more complex spatial situations as well as their own ideas. The aim of the course is to learn to understand drawing as an integral part of the architect’s creative process, and as a tool for analysis and communication.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

STEMPEL Ján, Jan Jakup Tesař, Daniel Brachtl, Kateřina Koňáta Dolejšová. Skici / Sketches. Praha: KANT 2016, ISBN 978-80-7437-179-0. (CS)
SÝKORA Jaroslav, kolektiv. Architektonické kreslení. Praha: ČVUT 2008. ISBN 978-80-01-04115-4. (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B_A+U Bachelor's 3 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme N_A+U Master's

    specialization --- (do 2022) , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer