Course Syllabus

Course Information：

Year-Semester	Course Number	Course Name	Phase	Credits	Hours	Required/Elective	Instructor	Class	Student NO.	Withdraw	Note
Fall Semester Year 2026	366006	Analytical Sketching	1	3.0	3	★	Nan-Ching Tai	4IDI4	0	0	International Students Year 4 / Master’s Combined Class (Restricted to Combined Class Students Only, Pre-enrollment: 13 Students)

Course Plan：

Instructor	Nan-Ching Tai　Office Hours
Email	nctai@ntut.edu.tw
Last Updated	2026-06-03 16:49:00
Course Objective	Seeing is a creative process that involves our eyes and mind to transform what we see into what we know, but sometimes the process is reversed—we rely on what we know to interpret what we are seeing. To draw what we see can, therefore, be a process of the interaction of seeing and understanding. The goal of this course will focus on this seeing, thinking, and drawing interaction while drawing architecture on location. This course introduces the concept of analytical drawing process, and how to utilize it in design sketching. 1. Introduce the concept of analytical drawing process and techniques of freehand sketch. 2. Develop the ability to see and analyze the three-dimensional characteristics of an observed object and encountered environment through analytical drawing process. 3. Familiar with both conceptual and perceptual form of representation, and be able to take a visual note to document an investigated subject.
Course Schedule	Week 01. Introduction Week 02. Analytical Drawing Weak 03. Perceptual Sketching Week 04. Perceptual Sketching: Structure & Space Week 05. Conceptual Sketching Week 06. Conceptual Sketching: Structure & Space Week 07. Pictorial Space We See Week 08. Sequence Perspective I Week 09. Light & Tone Week 10. Sequence Perspective II Week 11. Pictorial Space We Know Week 12. Seeing and Knowing Week 13. Diagramming Week 14. Visual Note Week 15. Visual Note Taking Week 16. Show & Tell
Evaluation and grading policy	On-site exercise:60% Sequence Perspective:15% Visual Note:15% Participation:10%
Materials	All right reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Foreign-language textbooks:Yes Francis D.K. Ching, 2011, 設計圖學, 藝術家出版. ISBN：9789862820254 Francis D.K. Ching, 2010, Design Drawing, John Wiley & Sons Inc. ISBN：9780470533697 Gabriel Campanario, 2012, 手繪城市：畫遍全世界, 積木出版社. ISBN：9789866595899 Gabriel Campanario, 2012, The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing on Location Around the World, Quayside Pub Group. ISBN：9781592537259
The access to curricular consultation	If there is any question, please contact instructor, Nan-Ching Tai, nctai@mail.ntut.edu.tw
Expanding teaching and resources	● 數位教材資源應用 (Application of Digital Resources) 採用影音多媒體或具開放授權之資源（如OCW、開放教科書）作為主要或輔助教材。 Adopts multimedia or open-licensed resources (e.g., OCW, Open Textbooks) as primary or supplementary teaching materials.
The course corresponds to the SDGs	SDG4：優質教育（Quality Education）
Does the course incorporate AI	● 無（None）
Note	Flexible Learning • The course aims to help students develop both the skills and the habit of using analytical sketching to observe and interpret what they see. • After presenting their final visual notes in A3 board format, students will explore a variety of visual note-taking approaches through show-and-tell. In Weeks 17 and 18, they will continue creating visual notes and post them on the course website or their own social media platforms. • The total expected workload is 6 hours. • This additional visual note-taking will be included in the participation grade.