Throughout history, drawing has been the essential medium of conveying architectural ideas, operating on multiple levels, from the practical application of serving the construction process to the more ...
As computers have increasingly eclipsed the notion of pencil-in-hand, has the art of the architectural sketch been lost to the ages? Drawing from Practice, Architects and the Meaning of ...
Roughly 4,150 years ago, in modern-day Iraq, a Mesopotamian king named Gudea commissioned a sculpture of himself. In it, he is depicted as an architect, with his hands clasped over a tablet showing an ...
We have a lot to thank computers for; the laptop I typed this article on can execute millions of instructions every second. This is a number us humans can’t comprehend, but thankfully, computers can.
Josh Lewandowski has been doodling architectural nonsense almost every day since September, “just ’cause.” Is there value in spending time on something with no practical application whatsoever? Josh ...
The exhibition Opening Lines: Sketchbooks of Ten Modern Architects features selections from one of the world’s great architecture drawing collections installed in the most important gallery devoted to ...
What do architectural drawings do? Convey visual information about the design of buildings. This much is certain. They do much else besides. They can be idiomatic and ideological, they can express the ...
There are many types of architectural drawings. Travel sketches, like those Michael Graves is known for, can serve as a form of note-taking, as fuel for the imagination, and as training for the eye.
The category winners for The Architecture Drawing Prize 2021 have been announced. The industry gong, which celebrates the art of architectural drawing and sketching, is now in its fifth year, and ...
In today's world, dominated by digital representation and increasingly life-like renders, the annual Architecture Drawing Prize is a refreshing celebration of the age-old art of architectural drawing.