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 - ...

A collection of 250 hand-drawn architectural exercises, created between 1975 and 1985, was selected for archiving.

Drawings by MOS, and others, are on view at a83 in its latest show titled Architectural Drawing III. (Olympia Shannon/Courtesy a83) As the title suggests, Architectural Drawing III is a83’s third ...

Whether a computer-created render or hand-drawn sketch, drawings play a crucial role in the development of the buildings that surround us. With this in mind, the World Architecture Festival (WAF) aims ...

From the May 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. The Renaissance architectural theorist Leon Battista Alberti thought it was not the business of architects to use drawings to deceive.

Drawings have long been used to communicate instructions for building and, while on the construction site, an architect’s job is to ensure fidelity to those documents. There are many other kinds of ...

FRANK P. MELENDEZ teaches at The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York. His teaching and research engage topics pertaining to architectural drawing and 3D modeling, ...

There is nothing to match the experience of entering Sir John Soane’s Museum in London for the first time. To walk through the door of 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields and be confronted with the unfolding ...

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 ...

Internationally renowned for her avant-garde search for architectural proposals that reflect modern living, Zaha Hadid made abstract topographical studies for many of her projects, intervening with ...