Approaches to Drawing in Architectural and Urban Design

Fabio Colonnese is an architect and senior researcher at the Department of History, Drawing and Restoration of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome. His PhD dissertation on the labyrinth and its manifold relationships with art, architecture, and city was published in Il Labirinto e l’Architetto (2006). His research focuses on perspective illusory devices in Baroque architecture, digital reconstruction after literary architectures, and architecture modelling.Nuno Grancho is an architect, urbanist, architectural historian, and theorist. He holds a PhD in architecture and urbanism from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and he is an integrated researcher at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Lisboa, Portugal. He is a postdoctoral researcher and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and an invited professor and visiting researcher at the Royal Danish Academy’s Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Denmark.Robin Schaeverbeke is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Architecture, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Belgium, where he teaches and researches architectural drawing and media. His practice situates itself between that of designer, researcher, teacher, draughtsman and improviser. His research centres around practice-based epistemologies of tools, techniques and formulas for architectural imagination in practice, teaching and learning.