Kids Draw Architecture’s 2026 Sketch Session will be held 1-3 p.m. Sunday, April 19 at Riviera Park, 2020 Alameda Padre Serra, Santa Barbara. Kids Draw ...

Throughout history, drawing has been the essential medium of conveying architectural ideas, operating on multiple levels, from the practical application of serving the construction process to the more ...

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 ...

Here’s why the analog tool is making a comeback—and how a simple pencil stroke is reshaping the future of design. In 1994, Bernard Tschumi, then Dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of ...

The concept and visual for Sketch to Structure, an exhibition that has just opened at Pittsburg’s Heinz Architectural Center, is so cogent and well thought out it’s a wonder no other museum hasn’t ...

Returning after a two-year hiatus, RECORD’s Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest was founded in 2010 to showcase the passion and skills of a diverse group of architects and designers and honor the legacy of ...

Adriano Marinazzo, scholar-in-residence at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary, has discovered what he believes to be Michelangelo’s first sketch of the Sistine Chapel. After ...

A professional architect, Eric Reinholt, talks about the points for efficient drawing and tips on how to draw ideas and draw sketches as drafts of paintings. Mechanical pencil with a thickness of ...

The ability to draw well is one of the most coveted skills in architecture. Unfortunately for those without an innate gift for sketching, it's also one of the most difficult to learn—even if it can, ...