The advent of 3D-modelling software may not spell the end for architectural drawing after all, says Owen Hopkins. Architectural drawing is in crisis, one that's arguably been brewing since the 1980s, ...

There are many types of architectural drawings. Travel sketches, like those Michael Graves is known for, can serve as a form of note-taking, as fuel for the imagination, and as training for the eye.

Throughout many of Marsilio Ficino's writings of the 1460s, 70s, and 80s recurs the theme of the architect and the creation of a building's form in his mind. In the same period, Italian artists ...

For Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki and David J. Lewis, the section “is often understood as a reductive drawing type, produced at the end of the design process to depict structural and material conditions ...