Abstract
Urban Sketchers movement is non-profit organization, created in 2007, with the goal of encouraging and supporting a global community of people who practice on-site drawing. Many of these sketchers are architects or architecture students who draw on the street in order to improve their representation skills and share drawing technics and supplies. This group is increasing every year, generating a general drawing spread, specific publications and workshops in all the continents. The proposed article aims to understand the reasons for this successful approach on “traditional” drawing on our digital era and how it influenced architects and architecture students to enhance their drawing skills. Is this an isolated movement, or is there a “status quo”, that is claiming drawing traditions?
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Barros Costa, H., Gilabert Sanz, S., Molina-Siles, P. (2019). 10 Years of Urban Sketching Imprint. In: Marcos, C. (eds) Graphic Imprints. EGA 2018. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93749-6_47
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