Evaluating relationships between hand-drawing ability and design performance: Case of Architecture Study Program UGM

The importance of drawing is among the most common discourses
in architectural practice and education. Current research
investigating the relation between drawing ability and architecture
students’ study performance give various results, indicating that
context plays significant role in determining such relationship.
Therefore, using a quantitative manner using comparative
measurement of correlations, this study aims to add insights to this
issue by exploring the connection between architectural students’
drawing ability and the results of stages of design studios wherein
one studio emphasizes one facet of design at a time, within the
context of undergraduate architecture education at Universitas
Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The results reveal that,
although the correlations vary throughout phases of the studios, the
importance of hand-drawing ability is more prominent at certain
studio emphasizing the ability to orchestrate form-space and to
present design products by hand-drawing, suggesting the
noteworthy role of hand-drawing in both envision and presentation.