The Bard Graduate Center devotes an exhibition to the dazzling drawings of the man responsible for Notre-Dame’s 19th-century restoration.
Two years after Steve and April Carvers completed their restoration of the magnificent Redstone Castle, another important piece of its history was preserved in a lower-key project. The original ...
In order to explain projects and design decisions properly, architects must use often rely on creative representation techniques instead of words. It’s part of the job. The quality of drawings - ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...