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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Modern architectural drawing is usually computer-generated. The resulting hyper-realistic digital renderings often trick the eye and make it difficult to discern the imagined from the real. “In this ...

The architecture of the Gothic period (ca 1150—1550 CE) belongs to the most significant manifestations of human culture. The development of a skeletal system supported by flying buttresses represents ...

In The Death of Drawing, David Ross Scheer, an architect and teacher specializing in digital technologies, lays out the contemporary practices of design that have pushed aside architectural drawing as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...