Descriptive geometry as a tool for the development of future architects’ imaginative abilities

¹ Department of Descriptive Geometry and Engineering Graphics, Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, 4 Vtoraya Krasnoarmeiskaya str., Saint Petersburg, Russia
² Department of Descriptive Geometry and Engineering Graphics, Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, 4 Vtoraya Krasnoarmeiskaya str., Saint Petersburg, Russia

^* Corresponding author: melnikova.gasu@yahoo.com

Abstract

The article gives a brief overview of the types of perspective. The importance of perspective’s construction from the real point of view is noted. An attempt to clarify the significance of spatial thinking and crea-tive imagination in teaching an architect’s profession is made in this paper. The methods of descriptive geometry affecting the accuracy of visual clari-ty are determined. The importance of creative and professional characteris-tics of a student-architect and a practicing architect are examined. Stu-dents-architects and practicing architects with different working experience were presented as the respondents. The similarity in the designation of high importance of imagination and creative thinking in all groups of respond-ents in professional work was revealed.