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 ...

For years, leaders of architectural firms have bemoaned the lack of hand drawing skills among recent graduates and young professionals entering the practice. With a tendency to bypass hand drawing and ...

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The advent of 3D-modelling software may not spell the end for architectural drawing after all, says Owen Hopkins. Architectural drawing is in crisis, one that's arguably been brewing since the 1980s, ...

Piranesi’s powerful rendition of Doric architecture. (Courtesy of Cantor Arts Center) In 1777, Italian printmaker and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi visited the ancient Greek city of Paestum on ...

Architectural renderings that are vividly pictorial, richly executed, even romantic, are back in vogue again after a long period of aridity at the drafting board. It is all right to draw buildings ...

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 ...

Perspective section drawing of the Art and Architecture Building, Yale University, New Haven, 1958, Pen and ink, graphite, and plastic film with halftone pattern, on illustration board 36 7/8 x 53 5/8 ...

The ability to draw well is one of the most coveted skills in architecture. Unfortunately for those without an innate gift for sketching, it's also one of the most difficult to learn—even if it can, ...