Javier Raposo Grau

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | UPM · Departamento de Ideación Gráfica Arquitectónica

The return to face-to-face teaching has served to value those social dynamics that foster a climate of collaborative learning within the classroom. We defined collaborative learning as a set of activities that transcend the practice of work in group, committing the collaboration of students and teachers in achieving common goals. After many years o...

The envelope is considered to be the boundary between the outside and the inside of a building. The aim of this study is to analyze both the process that led the concept of the façade to evolve in Western architecture and the repercussions of such evolution, focusing on energy consumption and comfort. The entire evolution of the façade has been clo...

Drawing allows architects to state their point of view to the world. Not only does it make possible the formalization of a space, it is a tool of expression used to think and develop complex concepts that are difficult to transmit with conventional communication mechanisms. In these cases, finding new forms of graphic expression has been essential...

Documenting, analyzing and designing architecture are activities that can be linked to art and technique. The humanistic, technical and conjectural training of architects has this ambiguity between artistic and technical aspects, which are intrinsically linked to the use of a language. The language that makes the architectural project possible is t...

In our experience, the practice of drawing enables the creative process that triggers the design process. The hybrid character of architectural drawing contributes particularly to this experimentation that encourages self-reflective processes. Regarding the methodology, the mechanisms of drawing contain the essence of transdisciplinary learning, un...

El catálogo del patrimonio arquitectónico, no sólo lo componen los edificios construidos, sino todas aquellas arquitecturas no construidas, de las que se conserva documentación gráfica. Según la UNESCO el patrimonio es el legado cultural del pasado que se transmite a las generaciones futuras. Englobados en el patrimonio arquitectónico, los dibujos...

There are multiple communicative strategies in architecture depending on the target audience. The mechanisms of representation may radically vary when the recipient is the client, the constructor, the curator, a colleague or even an instructor (1). As an example, the approach may be mainly visual when the target is the client. However, it may be st...

The concept of a pedal curve is used in geometry as a generation method for a multitude of curves. The definition of a pedal curve is linked to the concept of minimal distance. However, an interesting distinction can be made for ℝ2. In this space, the pedal curve of another curve C is defined as the locus of the foot of the perpendicular from the p...

The concept of a pedal curve is used in geometry as a generation method for a multitude of curves. The definition of a pedal curve is linked to the concept of minimal distance. However, an interesting distinction can be made for ℝ 2. In this space, the pedal curve of another curve C is defined as the locus of the foot of the perpendicular from the...

Este texto constituye un marco de reflexión abierta para definir qué entendemos por narrativa gráfica arquitectónica en un sentido amplio. Por ello, aunque centrado específicamente en el contexto del dibujo arquitectura y su expresión gráfica, la publicación también aborda la relación con otras disciplinas que se encuadran dentro de las artes visua...

p>El dibujo como acción ligada al proyecto, es consustancial al arquitecto. Es un ejercicio de pensamiento que ayuda a formalizar el espacio imaginado y a investigar más allá de lo geométricamente conocido, explorando conceptos ligados a las inquietudes de su tiempo. El resultado de estos procesos, arroja una secuencia de bocetos a menudo contenido...

Multiple communicative strategies can be followed in architecture according to the target audience. The mechanisms of representation may radically vary when the recipient is the client, the constructor, the curator, a colleague or even an instructor (1). As an example, the approach may be mainly visual when the target is the client. However, it may...

Saul Steinberg, one of the most innovative artists of the 20th century, revolutionized the world of illustration, becoming an indisputable reference in modern graphic narration.

The action of drawing is inherent to the human being. Drawing is our primal way of expression, even prior to the speech. Drawing is, therefore, a powerful means of communication and beyond that, it is a fundamental tool of discovery and exploration of the world around us.

Drawing is “outlining and shading when imitating the shape of a thing”, but it also is “revealing what was hidden or quiet”. Drawing (sketching, collaging, drafting, photographing) is a process of personal knowledge that aids both understanding and sharing.

Through the action of drawing, we can imagine, explore, recognize, analyze, propose, register. With strokes, spots, gestures, lines, and different graphical resources such as drawing, assembling, photomontage, collage, model. We explore, analyze and communicate experiences. We can state that the drawing and the model maintain the leadership as the...

Why do architects draw? The obvious response is that it is the most immediate way to formalize what does not exist. The drawing allows us to represent and analyze any pre-existing element, in addition to encourage experimental processes that lead to the project. The way to addresses these speculative drawings is as personal as the project itself. T...

p>Durante los años ochenta del siglo pasado, se dieron las condiciones para reivindicar un pensamiento crítico capaz de extender el discurso de la arquitectura a la sociedad. Desde algunas escuelas de arquitectura que apostaron por una arquitectura más diversa y culturalmente accesible al gran público, se procuró el acceso a su producción gráfica m...

The present article discusses the transformative capabilities of drawing as a tool of representation and, specifically, of ideation. With the evolution of the graphic tools and the emergence of digital media, the discipline has experienced an exponential transformation that leads to the development of new methodologies and systems that are inserted...

The evolution of architectural drawing endowed the discipline with multiple graphic communication strategies that enable the understanding of all the singularities of a certain geographical space. Launched by the 1st-year ETSAM architecture studio “Drawing Analysis and Ideation 2”, the teaching approach proposed will guide the students in the disco...

The map has become the ideal support to manage the multiple layers of information concerning a territory. Historically, the graphic strategies developed in the representation and communication of all that information, deserve our consideration as long as we might be able to extrapolate the design strategies that could be applied on the territory. T...

p>Emilio Tuñón Álvarez, 1959. Arquitecto por la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM), 1981; Doctor Arquitecto, 2000; Catedrático de Proyectos Arquitectónicos de la ETSAM, 2016. Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes por el gobierno de España, 2014; Premio Mies van der Rohe, 2007; Premio de Arquitectura Contemporánea de l...

Completed the first five years of implementation of the Bologna Plan in the teaching of architecture, it is difficult to make a serene balance on its suitability in such a rapidly alterative context, as the current. However, a deep reflection and research on the mechanisms and educational strategies used over the years, and its transformation and i...

p>De la mano de los cambios acontecidos a lo largo de las décadas comprendidas entre los años sesenta y ochenta del siglo xx, las propuestas gráficas de los arquitectos experimentaron un periodo de explosión creativa sin precedentes. Durante ese periodo, el dibujo de la arquitectura con toda su carga expresiva, fue puesto al servicio no solo de la...

People with intellectual disabilities, older age and mild degree of disabilities, use artistic expressions as a vehicle of expression, communication and cultural adaptation. The significant changes produced towards conceptions more dynamics of intellectual disability, based in greater interactions of intellectual disability, have led to the promoti...

Between the sixties and eighties of the last century, concurring with the gradual abandonment of the International Style and the adoption of the ideas of postmodernism in architecture, the architects' drawing experienced a period of unprecedented creative explosion. All the expressive power of the drawing, was supporting not only the representation...

Rem Koolhaas is a contexts’ s conceptualizator or a concepts’ contextualizator? Probably one of the differentiating features of his activity as an architect is his capacity to understand the geopolitical and social context in which he is immersed and to anticipate those topics that are going to be determinants in the future. He is, with no doubt, t...

The model of unlimited growth of the cities has entered into crisis and its consequences collide head-on with the understanding of the building as the ultimate purpose of the architecture. More than ever, it is necessary to generate a debate on the future of the architecture, raised from new points of view. Open the debate from the graphical experi...

EURAU 2016 - In between scales - European Symposium on Research in Architecture and Urban Design. ABSTRACTS ISBN 978-606-638-140-6 529 pages 28-30th September 2016 UAUIM Bucharest http://eurau2016.uauim.ro/ Honor Committee Ministry of National Education and Scientific Research Ministry of Culture Emil Barbu Popescu – Honorary President of UAUIM Gu...

La figura de Rem Koolhaas ha sido altamente estudiada y documentada, así como su producción arquitectónica y su constructo teórico. En opinión de muchos autores, puede tratarse del arquitecto vivo más influyente en la actualidad. Este artículo pretende reflexionar sobre la verdadera esencia de su aportación a la historia de la arquitectura y poner...

Rem Koolhaas is a controversial figure, whose manifestations have always a certain ability to anticipate what will be on the table in the architectural subsequent discourse. This gift of opportunity allows him, in a sense, to identify the topics that are going to be studied retrospectively recurrent, or to generate a conceptual flow, projective and...

Rem Koolhaas is a controversial figure, whose manifestations have always a certain ability to anticipate what will be on the table in the architectural subsequent discourse. This gift of opportunity allows him, in a sense, to identify the topics that are going to be studied retrospectively recurrent, or to generate a conceptual flow, projective and...

p>El objetivo principal del artículo es exponer y reflexionar sobre algunas de las experiencias docentes desarrolladas a lo largo de los años, con alumnos a los que se les ha impartido docencia en el Área de EGA y en el Área de Proyectos por los mismos profesores. La experiencia trata de expresar la ligazón existente entre una docencia del proyecta...

El objetivo fundamental del articulo es establecer el paralelismo existente entre el origen del proyecto arquitectonico y los procesos de creacion artistica. Se plantea la dinamica de configuracion arquitectonica como una serie de procesos abiertos basados en acciones graficas. Se establece la imaginacion como origen y acto de voluntad del proyecta...

El presente articulo plantea la reflexion sobre que es y que debe ser investigacion en arquitectura, y mas especificamente en el “proyectar” arquitectonico, identificando de manera clara los procesos y desarrollos graficos que realizan los arquitectos en el ejercicio de la profesion, y fundamental y especificamente los desarrollados al amparo de la...

El Grupo "Hypermedia. Taller de configuración arquitectónica" lo formamos un colectivo de profesores (doctores y asociados), doctorandos y becarios agrupados en la enseñanza del dibujo y el dibujar como herramienta para la elaboración profesional de proyectos de arquitectura en los primeros (1º y 2º año) semestres de la carrera de Arquitecto Superi...

Si nos referimos a los términos “dibujo” y “proyecto”, y lo hacemos por separado, podemos manejar diferentes acepciones, posiblemente no ligadas al campo que nos ocupa, que es el que está intrínsecamente vinculado y comprometido con la enseñanza del dibujar para el proyectar en las Escuelas de Arquitectura (Seguí 1978, Seguí 2000). Las Escuelas de...

Desde el año 1974 en la Cátedra de Análisis de Formas Arquitectónicas de la E.T.S. Arquitectura de Madrid, coordinada por Fco Javier Seguí, se ha venido desarrollando una actividad docente en un marco de actividad reflexiva, apoyada en una metodología vinculada a los procesos creativos, que ha ido adaptándose a las teorías que afectan a la pedagogí...

Los dibujos, los proyectos y en definitiva el hecho arquitectónico, todo ello considerado como obra artística, está vinculado a un proceso creativo, y por lo tanto, a una actividad poética y técnica, apoyada en la experiencia. Cualquier creación artística solo es posible gracias a la articulación de “actitudes” y “aptitudes” frente a esa situación...