Margarete Fröhlich (1901-2001) was an Austrian artist and interior designer who specialised in the modelling of housing units. Initially, she studied … [Read more...]
Monumental, Yet So Fragile: Arctic Landscapes by Emma Stibbon
German-born artist Emma Stibbon did her studies in England, where she currently works. Her production is mostly composed of monochrome drawings on … [Read more...]
Pia-Mélissa Laroche, “Hyper demeures” and Other Graphite Drawings
Pia-Mélissa Laroche is an illustrator living and working in Paris, France. Her works, often represented through axonometric projections, depict … [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...]
Herbert Bayer’s Small Architectural Projects (1924)
Herbert Bayer was a prolific graphic designer and typography designer who also worked as a sculptor and a painter and who produced architectural … [Read more...]
Axonometric Projections as a Project: Drawings by Alberto Sartoris
A relevant figure in the Rationalist movement, Italian-Swiss architect Alberto Sartoris (1901-1998) represented most of his projects in black and … [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...]
“Weltschmerz” and “Made in Sarajevo” by Ben Tolman
"Weltschmerz" and "Made in Sarajevo" are two series of ink drawings by Washington DC-based artist Ben Tolman. The first one is a collection made in … [Read more...]
Flows and Growth as Described by Rachel Duckhouse
Rachel Duckhouse is a multi media artist who lives and works in Glasgow, UK. Her practice is based on the deep observation of patterns in natural … [Read more...]
Don’t Be Afraid of Bad Dreams: Rik Smits’ Cities and Landscapes
Rik Smits is a Dutch artist who works with several media. His large pencil drawings depict cities and landscapes sceneries, sometimes with a realistic … [Read more...]
‘Book To The Head’ And Other Comics by Max Baitinger
Max Baitinger is a German comic designer, illustrator and animator. After studying carpentry, he moved to Leipzig to study illustration. His style is … [Read more...]
Infinite Infrastructure: Drawings of Tokyo Stations by Tomoyuki Tanaka
Tomoyuki Tanaka is a Japanese architect who creates mesmerizing x-ray drawings of Tokyo's major stations. These are precise ballpoint pen descriptions … [Read more...]
A Visual Compendium of the Real World: Illustrations by Takeda Yoshifumi
Takeda Yoshifumi is a Japanese illustrator and painter currently base in Tokyo. His work consists mostly of small, detailed illustrations with a … [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...]
“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...]
Wei Shao’s Blank City (2014)
Wei Shao is a Chinese Shanghai-based illustrator, artist and multi-major researcher. Her storytelling work approaches the theme of the relationship … [Read more...]
A Selection of Paul Rudolph’s Perspective Sections
As stated in Adrian Forty's "Concrete and Culture" (a very recommended read), architect Paul Rudolph's reliance on pen-and-ink rendering came from … [Read more...]
Imaginary City Landscapes by Georg Bohle
The imaginary city landscapes of Dutch artist Georg Bohle are metaphors representing the growth logic of a city and exacerbating the city's own image. … [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...]
“Ueno Planet for Exhibition” by Haruka Misawa
"Ueno Planet for Exhibition" is a collection of posters and brochures by Japanese designer Haruka Misawa and her office, the Misawa Design Institute. … [Read more...]
A Collection of Tessenow’s Interiors Drawings
Tessenow's drawings are immediatly recognizable for being straightforward and yet precise in the description of a building or a space. The essence of … [Read more...]
Portrait of Their Landscape and Other Drawings by Seokyong Shim
Seokyong Shim (soquu.d) studied architecture in South Korea and is now enrolled in a program for Graphic Design in London. His graphic projects join … [Read more...]
“How Do We Represent Something That We Never Look At?” Drawings by Martinet et Texereau
Pauline Martinet and Zoé Texereau are two French artists who work together producing common drawings with a shared aesthetics. They provided … [Read more...]
Fracturing and Displacement of Form: Daniel Libeskind’s Early Collage Drawings (1967-1970)
The pedagogical methods of John Hejduk, Ulrich Franzen and Robert Slutzky at the Cooper Union School of Architecture in the 1960's was crucial for … [Read more...]
