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 - ...

Phaidon’s new tome encapsulates human history through the drawings of its architects, whether they scratched their designs in clay or sent them via WhatsApp. Roughly 4,150 years ago, in modern-day ...

Hans Holbein the Elder (German, ca. 1465–1524); Portrait of the Architect Mathes (Matthäus) Roriczer ca. 1490–93; silverpoint on gray-white prepared paper, later partially covered with gray body color ...

As the foundation of any architectural design, sketches and drawings have long been known for their ability to allow the architect to interact with his/her design efficiently and express concepts ...

How does scale factor into the practice of architecture? For any architect, scale and proportion are two skills that appear to be the most challenging to master. Scale and proportion are also where a ...

The design site Dimensions.Guide is a clip art library for designers, architects, and anyone else who needs precise scale drawings. Every scale drawing in its database is composed in the same clean ...

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 ...

The exhibition Opening Lines: Sketchbooks of Ten Modern Architects features selections from one of the world’s great architecture drawing collections installed in the most important gallery devoted to ...

In this episode of Life of an Architect, we are focusing on drawings. The question that first comes to mind is to talk about what we draw, why we draw it, who we draw it for, and why that impacts all ...

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 ...

Who has the right to use architectural plans and drawings prepared by an architect for a specific project? What happens if the project on which the architect was working and the architect both leave ...