Here’s why the analog tool is making a comeback—and how a simple pencil stroke is reshaping the future of design.

Explore GÉOMÉTRAL's architectural narratives, merging hand-drawn sketches with site analysis to create context-driven designs ...

Perspective drawing of the Lower Manhattan Expressway / City Corridor project (unbuilt), New York ca. 1967–72. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of the Howard Gilman Foundation (1290.2000).

Formal drawings are a more precise style of drawing. They can be produced by hand or with computer aided design (CAD) packages. Formal hand drawings use tools such as rulers and set squares to ensure ...

There are many types of architectural drawings. Travel sketches, like those Michael Graves is known for, can serve as a form of note-taking, as fuel for the imagination, and as training for the eye.

I've never been someone who enjoys making diagrams. It's not that there aren't good diagramming and visualization tools out there — it's that I get caught up in the details. I'd spend more time ...