Recently, the California Court of Appeals in Simmons v. Ehm Architecture, Inc., No. D080702, 2023 WL 8888228 (Cal. App. 4th Dist. Dec, 26, 2023) (unpublished), held that an owner giving his ...

We have all seen a floor plan before. They are typically black-and-white, and maybe some room labels, and an occasional furniture piece or two. This has been the norm for just about as long as anyone ...

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 ...

Rather than criticizing design itself, the report examines the structural flaw in the traditional architect-first model.

Josh Lewandowski has been doodling architectural nonsense almost every day since September, “just ’cause.” Is there value in spending time on something with no practical application whatsoever? Josh ...

On March 29, the Judd Foundation in New York will open its new exhibition on Lauretta Vinciarelli, an Italian artist, architect, and professor. After moving to the United States, Vinciarelli worked ...

Two years after Steve and April Carvers completed their restoration of the magnificent Redstone Castle, another important piece of its history was preserved in a lower-key project. The original ...

A combination of render work and hand-drawn imagery, the Architecture Drawing Prize 2022’s winning piece, Fitzroy Food Institute, is the result of two architectural minds put together to explore ...

We have a lot to thank computers for; the laptop I typed this article on can execute millions of instructions every second. This is a number us humans can’t comprehend, but thankfully, computers can.

In order to explain projects and design decisions properly, architects must use often rely on creative representation techniques instead of words. It’s part of the job. The quality of drawings - ...