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 ...

Digital photo renderings allow architects to project what finished buildings or interiors might look like in the flesh. Architectural drawings—a lost art—provide a bird’s-eye view of floor plans. But ...

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 ...

Author Jordan Kauffman documents an important moment in recent history when architecture reasserted its cultural status through the showcasing of particular drawings. The episode begins in 1972 with ...

When it comes to floor plans, programs such as AutoCAD, Revit, and Rhino usually spring to mind. That, however, doesn’t appear to be the case for Norwegian firm Vardehaugen. Based in Oslo, they are ...

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 ...

The late architectural illustrator Carlos Diniz drew this rendering of the World Trade Center Twin Towers in 1963. Drawing: Carlos Diniz Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Mark Cuban ...

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 - ...