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 ...
Wrapped in facades of concrete, etched with the fragments of enlarged sketches, the Tchoban Foundation Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin exploits the craft of construction to celebrate 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.
British architect Chris Wilkinson is in the spotlight this week with the opening of “Thinking Through Drawing,” an exhibition at the Royal Academy in London that gathers nearly three decades’ worth 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 ...
Few are the architectural models that can be eaten with onion dip. But then again, few are the architects who create experimental models quite like Sou Fujimoto. The Japanese-born architect, now based ...
Ever wondered why architects sketch the way they do? Discover the techniques and reasoning behind professional architectural sketches. Perfect for architecture students, designers, and anyone curious ...
STATEN ISLAND, NY -- RICHMOND -- Turns out, there is a guy who makes 'em like they used to. Richmond architect David Carnivale draws up his blueprints by hand using quills and Rapidiographs, vellum ...
CAMBRIDGE — “Drawing After Modernism,” which runs at the MIT Museum through Oct. 27, is about a particular kind of drawing and a particular period of after. The museum’s Jonathan Duval curated the ...
We have all seen a floor plan before. They are typically black-and-white, and maybe some room labels, and an occasional furniture piece or two. This has been the norm for just about as long as anyone ...