The course aims to train the ability to imagine and control space through the use of mental and graphic models. In particular, the course will use the graphic models in their freehand and technical drawing expressions, as a first approach to the understanding of space, shapes and fundamental geometric entities. Ample space will be given to the geometric foundations of graphic representation as theoretical and applicative tools for the formal control of the elements under investigation, meaning the methods of representation in plan and elevation, in perspective and axonometry.

Materials needed for the drawing
It is necessary that the student has the common drawing materials: pencils of hardness H, HB, F and B, a 50 cm ruler, two types of squares one at 45° and the other at 30° and 60° and a compass. An A5, A4 or similar size notebook with blank sheets and an unbound smooth sheet sketchbook of A3 size is required.

Riccardo Migliari, Geometria dei modelli, K editore, Roma 2003.