摘要:The article presents the results of such phenomena as the drawing of an architect and architectural drawing, theoretical approaches and methods of forming project mentality by a student - architect through drawing, analysis of the teaching drawing method to future architects of leading Russian universities, built on projective mentality and analytical drawing from nature and by representation. The examples of some tasks on architectural drawing that form the design mentality of the future architect and the skills of graphic modeling of the architectural space geometry are given.