The photographic paradigm of the digital architectural drawing

Abstract

The digital drawing has profoundly transformed the architectural graphic representation. Its progressive implantation has exponentially amplified the capacity for the ideation and manipulation of architectural forms, but, in parallel, it has transformed the own way of representing the architecture and the functions of the drawing in this process. In the current article one of these conceptual transformations occurred in the last years is analyzed: the transfer to the graphic scope of the idea of verisimilitude, typical of photography. A process in which the architectural drawing has tried to become an exact replica of reality; an image in which a complete sense of analogy is sought between the real object and its representation, of which the render is the paradigmatic example. A process that abandons the traditional conceptual bases of drawing, based on the interpretation of the object, to replicate its visual image in an exact way