The fifteenth-century Gothic builders were challenged by their profession, craft, and guild changes. The widespread use of paper coinciding with the invention of the printing press in 1440, facilitated the reproduction and circulation of manuscripts, books, and histories. The new builders would be influenced by more numerous graphic images on paper and perhaps for the very first time, scaled drawings were issued to craftsmen and builders. From now on builders followed a strict construction plan very different from the improvised skill of their craft or guild. The new “paper architecture” as it was called would slowly change the entire profession, communications, and practice. Individual artistry and personal style eventually produced a period of rapid change and progression in design. In addition, the personal names of the architect and designers become known and significant.

The architecture of the individual had begun; this quintessential idea began in the Renaissance. The individual whose brilliant ideas surpassed the Gothic capacity to render is Filippo Di Ser Brunelleschi. Brunellesco’s design and completion of the Florence Cathedral dome freed all to imagine greater and provided the basis for our modern era. Our modern era is electronic and immediate. We are experiencing similar conclusive changes within this 21st Century Era. We are progressively examining our current techniques and methodologies as our profession moves closer to a system of total electronic digital design. The question remains: how relevant will hand drawing and sketching be in today’s digitally centered curricula and how do we manage digital drawing and design by exercising the same commands throughout? We now use many of the same materials, figures, cars, patterns, and entourage,-some out-of-scale in configuring drawings and design. In this paper, instruction of the beginning student and their similar design assemblies using CAD, as well as their methods of drawing, designing, and finishing using strictly electronic digital formulas will be addressed.