Steven Holl   Through drawings and models, the research project questions clichés in architectural language. It has developed into an experimental house and an exploration of architecture and dance, in collaboration with choreagrapher Jessica Lang... [+]

Founded by Filipe Paixão in 2014, Corpo Atelier combines architecture and plastic arts in suggestive compositions with which they explore the constructive anatomy of their projects. The structures emerge from photographic cut-outs of textures and mat

Despite the inevitable brevity of her career, Maria Antónia Leite Siza (Porto, 1940-1973) produced more than 3.000 drawings and paintings. Crippled women, disfigured bodies and, in sum, victims of misery and circumstance, filled her work in an exerci

Since 2013, Gabriele Corbo, Jacopo Costanzo, and Valeria Guerrisi lead WAR (Warehouse of Architecture and Research), a hybrid of mannerist architecture studio and contemporary innovation space with a peculiar vision of the creative process. Far from

The drawings of Peter Cook (Southend-on-Sea, 1936) still today bear testimony to those vibrant years of energetic optimism and technological arcadias represented in the iconic collages of Archigram. For Cook, paper is the best tool to express his che

Norman Foster   From 6 to 8 October the Palais des Nations in Geneva was the venue of a meeting of ministers from states belonging to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The member states agreed to endorse Regional Action Plan 2030, which seek

Eduardo Prieto   Ever since evolution gave the human being prehensile thumbs, humanity has left marks on the world. Many show its tendency to destroy, others its tendency to create. Humans leave marks in many ways, and drawing is one. Scratched on a cave wall, traced

Six months before dying in poverty, the visionary French architect Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1826), after failing to find a buyer, donated hundreds of his drawings to the Bibliothèque nationale de France. His detailed works describe all sorts of them

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Coffee table books have bad press, but these two volumes deserve attention. Drawing Architecture gathers almost 300 drawings, from a Sumerian sanctuary floor plan engraved over 4,000 years ago on the sculpture of the architect-king Gudea to H&deM’s E

The Mind Circle   Before the advent of AutoCAD and other drafting software, the engineering drawings were made on the sheet of papers using drawing boards. Many types of equipment were required to complete a given drawing such as drawing board, different grade pencils

Ever incisive when reflecting on the work of fellow architects and his own, Rafael Moneo knows full well that every architectural exhibition is a metonymy, referring to a truly important reality – buildings – through elements that represent them – ph

Fernando Valderrama   Already in its inaugural issue, back in June 1988, this magazine made room for commentary on architecture’s new digital tools, which were changing the way architects graphically represented the buildings that they imagined, and gradually even the act

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During the thirty years she worked in the Soviet Space Program, architect Galina Balashova (Moscow, 1931) managed to add beauty and harmony to the high-technology world of spacecrafts, laboratories, and survival equipments. After the launch in 1951 o

With an interdisciplinary approach, the independent publishing platform HipoTesis was set up in 2009 with the objective of creating a place, a network for the exchange of ideas, proposals, and reflections, establishing connections and promoting dialo

Francisco G. de Canales   Rafael Moneo: A Theoretical Reflection from within the Profession is the first major retrospective on the oeuvre of the Navarrese architect. 

Rafael Vetusto   Uncontrolled urbanism, the aesthetics of waste and the paradoxes of globalization are the target of the hilarious satires of Miguel Brieva, one of the fundamental authors of contemporary Spanish comics.

Justo Isasi   With the recent death of Moebius, comics has lost one of its most personal creators, the creator of a vast dreamlike world in which the architectural settings are as important as the heroes who inhabit them.

AV Proyectos 51 includes the drawings of Nigel Peake, extracted from the meticulous publications in which the Irish artist organizes his illustrations by theme. Peake’s images show his interest in architecture, career from which he graduated at Edinb

Giovanni-Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) signed all his books as ‘Venetian architect’, although he only carried out one building. The shortage of commissions in Rome in 1740 led him to replace the architect’s tools for the engraver’s burin, generating

Fernando Zaparaín   Deprisa, deprisa... Así continúa moviéndose por nuestras ciudades el famoso personaje de Hergé, en el centenario convencional de su creador. Si lo seguimos, a lo largo de este análisis podremos comprobar cómo en los cómics de Tintín, las viñetas defi

Fernando Valderrama   El trazado manual de una perspectiva siempre ha sido muy pesado. Los puntos de fuga tienden a salirse del tablero de dibujo y caer en la habitación de al lado. Y todavía más si se trata de una proyección con plano del cuadro inclinado, donde también

Mario Carpo   En su obra Conceptos fundamentales de la historia del arte, publicada originalmente en 1915, el filósofo e historiador del arte Heinrich Wölfflin defendía que la evolución de las formas creadas por la humanidad seguía una trayectoria cíclica, un reco

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