Despite the rush of new technologies available to architects to express their designs, the humble art of hand-drawing is still alive and well. And when sketching are drafting are done well enough, ...

"Drawing is the most immediate way to bring architecture to life—we cannot understand how a space will feel and function until we give it form," writes Tom Kundig of Olson Kundig in the foreword of ...

Some time ago, I embarked on an internet research journey for a project centered on representation in architecture. My quest led me to peruse the websites of various architecture firms. While many of ...

Throughout many of Marsilio Ficino's writings of the 1460s, 70s, and 80s recurs the theme of the architect and the creation of a building's form in his mind. In the same period, Italian artists ...

(Installation view of works by Brigitte Mahlknecht (left), Judith Saupper (center), William Cordova (right). (Courtesy ACFNY/Luca Mercedes) The Projective Drawing at the Austrian Cultural Forum New ...

Title/Date: “Montage illustrating stage 2 for CP Aviary,” circa. 1983. Electrostatic print with colored pencil on paper, Cedric Price fonds. (Courtesy the Canadian Centre for Architecture) In line ...

Phaidon’s new tome encapsulates human history through the drawings of its architects, whether they scratched their designs in clay or sent them via WhatsApp. Roughly 4,150 years ago, in modern-day ...

Illustrator Patrick Lopez spent years collaborating with some of the best architects in the 20th century — Helmut Jahn, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Johnson and Burgee, among them. Lopez’s ...

For Tadao Ando, the self-taught architect maverick, drawing is thinking. Known for austere yet elegant concrete buildings with knife-sharp edges, Ando brings his ideas to life with just a few freehand ...

Princeton University Art Museum has acquired a significant collection of drawings from the estate of the late architect Michael Graves, it was announced this week. Nearly 5,000 drawings, which span ...