In 1994, Bernard Tschumi, then Dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture in New York, launched an experiment that banned paper and hand drawings, requiring architecture students to ...

Follow this step-by-step guide to create clear, compelling architectural concept sketches — from initial idea and composition to perspective, linework, and quick shading techniques. Perfect for ...

Here’s why the analog tool is making a comeback—and how a simple pencil stroke is reshaping the future of design.

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 ...

Title Page of the Book. ARCHITECTURAL RENDERING: HAND-DRAWN PERSPECTIVES & SKETCHES is a unique book in the form of a compendium of 412 hand-drawn perspectives, sketches, isometrics, axonometrics, ...

Amin Zakaria, Architectural Designer, Kuching, Malaysia. Image Courtesy of Morpholio Morpholio Trace, the team who brought the architects’ canary yellow trace paper into the digital world, has been on ...

Founded in 2010, our annual Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest honors the legacy of sketching in architecture and design. This year, RECORD editors sorted through over 300 entries submitted from across ...

"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 ...

Click to open image viewer. Architecture sketches showing three stacked views of buildings and architectural details around Italy. At upper center, a small fortress with two rectangular towers is ...