What do architectural drawings do? Convey visual information about the design of buildings. This much is certain. They do much else besides. They can be idiomatic and ideological, they can express the ...

Digital Category - entombment of fear exterior_kyra swee yew yong. Image Courtesy of The Architecture Drawing Prize 2020 The Architecture Drawing Prize 2020 announced the shortlisted entries in the ...

"What hideous drawings!" reads a line of cursive script at the bottom of a framed architectural elevation at the Royal Academy. "Did anyone ever see such vulgar looking things – I am quite ashamed of ...

There are many types of architectural drawings. Travel sketches, like those Michael Graves is known for, can serve as a form of note-taking, as fuel for the imagination, and as training for the eye.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Carlo Scarpa used to begin his lectures to architecture students at the University of Venice with a lesson in ...

CHM copy Purchased from the Cooper Hewitt Library Endowment. Prior to the 1970s, buildings were commonly understood to be the goal of architectural practice; architectural drawings were seen simply as ...