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Teaching Drawing as a Code or Diagram—Mirror or Map—, and Its Correlation with the Right or Left Brain Hemispheres

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Inexperienced students of architecture are better at copying an inverted drawing than at copying the original. Edwards relates this fact to the way the brain hemispheres work. While the left one is verbal, rational, sequential, and articulates language, memory and mathematical aspects, the right hemisphere is intuitive, perceives overall patterns and images rather than parts and is dominated by emotion. Learning how to draw is learning how to access the perceptive part of our brain (Edwards [1979] 2000, 83).

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  1. Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

    Aurelio Vallespín Muniesa, Noelia Cervero Sánchez & Victoria González Gómez

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  1. Departamento de Arquitectura, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

    Enrique Castaño Perea

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Vallespín Muniesa, A., Cervero Sánchez, N., González Gómez, V. (2018). Teaching Drawing as a Code or Diagram—Mirror or Map—, and Its Correlation with the Right or Left Brain Hemispheres. In: Castaño Perea, E., Echeverria Valiente, E. (eds) Architectural Draughtsmanship. EGA 2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58856-8_43

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