Sketch: The basis of architectural design

In this paper I intend to demonstrate and revalue the importance of freehand sketching in the academic and cognitive training of architecture students, which will ultimately be a transcendental basis in the architectural design process. In Chapter 1, I make a comparison of the schools of architecture in Peru and Latin America with those in the United States and Spain, highlighting wide differences in terms of the time load dedicated to freehand drawing, which is linked to the freedom and creative capacity of the student. Some deficiencies that affect the creative process of architectural design are evidenced. In chapter 2, I go deeper into the typologies of freehand sketching based on my academic and professional experience, which will be useful and will be applied according to their level of complexity and under certain professional circumstances as well as specific characteristics of a required project. There is no intention to question or qualify under any circumstances the imagination and architectural production of those creative people who start from digital drawing device because it means a valid resource to design.