The concept and visual for Sketch to Structure, an exhibition that has just opened at Pittsburg’s Heinz Architectural Center, is so cogent and well thought out it’s a wonder no other museum hasn’t ...

The Tchoban Foundation was initiated in 2009 to celebrate the art of drawing through exhibitions and publications. The Foundation’s Museum for Architectural Drawing was built in Berlin in 2013 around ...

As computers have increasingly eclipsed the notion of pencil-in-hand, has the art of the architectural sketch been lost to the ages? Drawing from Practice, Architects and the Meaning of ...

When Lori Stephens was growing up in Salem, she loved to draw imaginary houses that she wanted to live in. She’d make elaborate floor plans and sometimes even create models of the homes out of ...

Digital photo renderings allow architects to project what finished buildings or interiors might look like in the flesh. Architectural drawings—a lost art—provide a bird’s-eye view of floor plans. But ...

Architects almost can’t help drawing inspiration from nature. The outside spiral of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum resembles a nautilus shell; the light dappled ceiling of Antoni Gaudi’s ...