Period: c21st

Elizabeth Hatz

Elizabeth Hatz

Elizabeth Hatz

Permanence – drawing as adjuration (incantation) If architecture, like art, is a way of asking forgiveness for being mortal (consider the Egyptians or Etruscans), making something last long after the last sigh of its author and searching for a form of permanence, transcending the most ephemeral moment, then the architectural… Read More

Conen Sigl Architekten

Conen Sigl Architekten

Maria Conen

A drawing made in retrospect is the opposite of a sketch made at the beginning of the design process, which is an incomplete kind of searching for a way to order and compose the constitutive elements. This kind of ‘drawing made afterwards’ is much more about bringing all the principal… Read More

Roz Barr Architects

Roz Barr Architects

Roz Barr

The act of making a physical artefact involves a to-and-fro engagement with an idea, in which decisions are ‘made’ and re-thought, and then un-made before the idea is realised. This roundabout but essential process of adaption is carried out, in the work of my architectural practice, through the use of… Read More

Perry Kulper

Perry Kulper

Sophia Banou

‘Spatial Blooms’ and Digital Expectations Within the currently dominant visual culture, architectural drawing is persistently called to compete with a wide range of digital modes of visualisation, as well as fabrication, that tend towards simulation rather than representation. Is architectural drawing rendered redundant in this proliferation of digital renderings? And,… Read More

Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten

Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten

Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan

Hard lead pencils are unforgiving and require concentration, precision and humility when drawing with them. By using a hard lead the painterly effect associated with soft pencil sketches is avoided, with their tolerance to imprecision and visual sloppiness. Sketching with a hard lead requires focus. The joy of drawing a… Read More

Caruso St John Architects

Caruso St John Architects

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Jessie Brennan

Jessie Brennan

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Thomas: Aitchison / Prendergast

Thomas: Aitchison / Prendergast

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Deanna Petherbridge

Deanna Petherbridge

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Marie–José Van Hee: Black Drawings

Marie–José Van Hee: Black Drawings

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The Black Drawings of Marie-José Van Hee

The Black Drawings of Marie-José Van Hee

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On Collecting

On Collecting

Niall Hobhouse

This thrill in informally assembling material of different types from different centuries and places into narratives that are new and unfamiliar is based on probing what can be learned from the drawings themselves. Perhaps also to incite more and more varied use of them as cultural documents, as stimuli to… Read More

Alexander Brodsky

Alexander Brodsky

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Peter Salter

Peter Salter

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Casswell Bank Architects

Casswell Bank Architects

Alex Bank and Sam Casswell

The Garden Rooms academy drawing by Casswell Bank Architect’s is a depiction of the relationship between the new shed, the Maltings buildings and its gardens located at the western edge of Bruton. The drawing extends beyond the adjacent road connecting the town with the countryside and the river Brue that… Read More

The Stones of John Ruskin

The Stones of John Ruskin

Nicholas Olsberg and John Ruskin

What follows is a selection from the collection of minerals given to and arranged for St. David’s School, Reigate, by John Ruskin, who prepared a full printed Catalogue of the Collection of Siliceous Minerals, dated 1883. The collection is still largely intact. Stones were important to Ruskin’s view of architecture.… Read More

Pier Vittorio Aureli

Pier Vittorio Aureli

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Seven Farmyards

Seven Farmyards

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Five Obelisks

Five Obelisks

the Birth of the Column

the Birth of the Column

Álvaro Siza

You walk along the street with all its traffic and find yourself in front of the big archway. Through it you see the courtyard, which comes as a surprise. The scale is domestic rather than monumental, but the building’s façade – with its portico and columns, which are whiter than… Read More

This Was Tomorrow: Reinventing Architecture 1953–1978

This Was Tomorrow: Reinventing Architecture 1953–1978

This Was Tomorrow: Reinventing Architecture 1953–1978 is an exhibition about architectural imagination and the power, processes and poetics of creation and invention. It presents a series of twelve episodes – beginning in the 1950s – that look at the ferment of new ideas as architects began to reconceive space in response… Read More

Pier Vittorio Aureli

Pier Vittorio Aureli

Pier Vittorio Aureli

The Marriage of Reason and Squalor is a set of drawings I’ve produced since 2001. They are an investigation into what, in the absence of a better definition, I’ve called ‘non-compositional architecture’. Since the very beginning, I’ve conceived of these drawings as something to be executed by the simplest of means,… Read More