Starting in 1814, when he was already 55, Japanese artist Hokusai Katsushika published over 4000 small drawings on extremely varied subjects. The 15 … [Read more...]
Kon Wajiro’s Archaeology of Present Times
Japanese architect, sociologist, and educator Kon Wajiro was living in Tokyo when the violent 1923 earthquake occurred. With his students, he visited … [Read more...]
Constructing Abstraction. Pablo Picasso’s Constellation Drawings (1924)
The Constellations drawings are a series of sketches by Pablo Picasso drawn on sixteen pages of a notebook in 1924. For these small drawings in black … [Read more...]
Illustrating through Parallel Lines: Works by Owen D. Pomery
Owen D. Pomery has an educational and professional background in architecture and nowadays he works in pen and ink as a professional illustrator for … [Read more...]
Understanding How Something is Created: the Drawing Process of Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu
Belgian architectural office "Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu" (A DVVT) uses to produce a wide range of architectural drawings that cannot be … [Read more...]
“A Given Moment of a Fleeting Reality”: Banco Pinto & Sotto Mayor in Oliveira de Azeméis by Álvaro Siza Vieira (1971-1974)
At the start of the seventies, Porto-born architect Álvaro Siza Vieira completed a series of small-scale projects in the north of Portugal, close to … [Read more...]
An Introduction to Rudolf Olgiati’s Vocabulary
Swiss architect Rudolf Olgiati (1910-1995) constructed most of his buildings in the region of Grisons in Switzerland. Most of his works were family … [Read more...]
Andrew DeGraff’s Unfinished Construction Sites
Illustrator and painter Andrew DeGraff is working on a series of sketches of unfinished construction sites with a surreal twist. The axonometric … [Read more...]
