Introduction to Architectural Drawing in AutoCAD
Course final project
A course by Isabel Martínez , Architect
About the final project for: Introduction to Architectural Drawing in AutoCAD
Introduction to architectural drawing in AutoCAD
“Remember that practice will be fundamental during the learning of any software and AutoCAD is no exception. So it is very important that you do all the exercises of the course to understand how the software works and explore its possibilities. The project that we are working on in the course is useful to learn how to use the tools, but once you begin to master them, I would love you to apply what you have learned in your own projects. I invite you to participate in the forum and publish your progress to receive comments, and above all, to resolve all your questions. See you soon!”
Partial transcription of the video
“FINAL PROJECT Now I will give you a summary of what we did in the course. I started by introducing myself and I spoke of the influences that marked my career. Then we work with the AutoCAD interface. We navigated the Model space and looked at the basic tools. We learned to customize the drawing units and work with them. Also to select and modify elements and basic tools with which we work both manually and numerically. I introduced you to the course project, Le Corbusier's El Cabanon. We saw some photos of this iconic work, and we passed AutoCAD to organize our project in layers. We review ...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Architectural Drawing in AutoCAD
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Category
Architecture & Spaces, Design -
Software
AutoCAD -
Areas
Architectural Illustration, Architecture, ArchVIZ, Interior Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture

Isabel Martínez
A course by Isabel Martínez
Isabel Martínez Abascal is an architect from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain. She also studied at the Technische Universität in Berlin, Germany, and at the Vastu Shilpa Foundation in Ahmedabad, India.
Throughout her career, she's collaborated with the SANAA studios in Tokyo, Japan, Aranguren y Gallegos in Madrid, Spain, Anupama Kundoo in Berlin, Germany, and Pedro Mendes da Rocha in São Paulo, Brazil. She has been a professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Escola da Cidade, in São Paulo, Brazil for many years.
She participated as a teacher in the XXIV International Workshop of Cartagena, the Ibero-American Biennial of Medellin 2010, the International Seminar of Curitiba 2012, and the California College of Arts 2012 Rio Olympics Workshop. In addition, she helped curate the 2013 X São Paulo Architecture Biennial and curated the 2014 13th exhibition for the inaugural cycle of the La Conservera Museum, Murcia as well as the 2015 exhibition Visionary Instruments by the artist Almudena Lobera for the ECCO Museum, Cádiz. From July 2015 to August 2017 she directed the LIGA platform, a space for DF architecture, dedicated to the exhibition, dissemination, and discussion of Latin American architecture.
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