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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 ...

Architecture's design process has always been shaped by the tools at hand. We once drew with pen and ink on fragile sheets, copied by blueprint and guarded against smudges and tears; then Mylar ...

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 ...

(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 ...

"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 ...

Jeffrey Dungan is an architect, but any image of him hunched over the drafting board, pencil in hand, wouldn't entirely tell the whole picture of his practice. The Birmingham, Alabama–based creative, ...