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 - ...

(Installation view of works by Brigitte Mahlknecht (left), Judith Saupper (center), William Cordova (right). (Courtesy ACFNY/Luca Mercedes) The Projective Drawing at the Austrian Cultural Forum New ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Drawing is the most immediate way to bring architecture to life—we cannot understand how a space will feel and function until we give it form," writes Tom Kundig of Olson Kundig in the foreword of ...

In building the St. Louis Bridge, James Eads faced hundreds of decisions. How would the spans be stiffened? What would the train tunnel look like? How big would the roadway be? Eads and his team ...

CAMBRIDGE — “Drawing After Modernism,” which runs at the MIT Museum through Oct. 27, is about a particular kind of drawing and a particular period of after. The museum’s Jonathan Duval curated the ...

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 ...

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If you create or use architectural plans, understanding how copyright law works is critical. Home-plans are reused far more often than many assume. Builders may reuse design drawings without approval.

Internationally renowned for her avant-garde search for architectural proposals that reflect modern living, Zaha Hadid made abstract topographical studies for many of her projects, intervening with ...