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A New Exhibition Explores Gaetano Pesce’s Drawing Practice

Titled Unframed, the display of drawings from the last four decades illustrates the radical designer’s jubilant thinking on paper, with works mostly taped onto the gallery walls.

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A New Book Explores the Iterative Nature of Milton Glaser’s Designs

Penned by the late design icon himself, Sketch & Finish juxtaposes over 70 finished works with original sketches, which he called "pictures of the brain."

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Q&A: Konstantinos Dimopoulos on the Virtual Cities of Video Games

The game designer and academic speaks with Metropolis about how fictionalized video game cities can help spark more thoughtful urban planning.

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The New Book Single-Handedly Showcases Hand Drawings by 43 Contemporary Architects and Firms

In this article, Metropolis excerpts the introduction and multiple drawings from the book, which was authored by Nalina Moses and debuts today.

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Drawing Bo Bardi: Barcelona Exhibition Showcases the Architectural and Artistic Designs of Lina Bo Bardi

Lina Bo Bardi Dibuja (Lina Bo Bardi Drawing), curated by artist and scholar Zeuler Lima for the Fundació Joan Miró, showcases around 100 of the Italian-born Brazilian architect's sketches, watercolors, and gouac

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Metropolis’s Best of 2018: Drawing and Representation

If this past year taught us anything, it's that social, technological, and historical context is essential to understanding drawing and representation today.

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See the Thesis Projects of Liz Diller, Daniel Libeskind, and Other Cooper Union Grads at New Exhibit

Archive and Artifact: The Virtual and the Physical at the Cooper Union showcases physical drawings, models, and the school's growing digital archive of student work.

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For a Community of Gamers, The Sims Is a Gateway to the Real World of Architecture

Drawing inspiration from iconic architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, many fans of the popular life-simulation game are using it to design virtual worlds.

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Artist Robert Irwin’s Architectural Drawings and Models Go on View at Pratt

Robert Irwin: Site Determined, open at the Pratt Institute through November 28th, showcases the artist's rarely-seen drawings and models.

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Can’t Be Bothered: The Chic Indifference of Post-Digital Drawing

The "post-digital" valorizes the ordinary and renders it to look like the past.

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Sam Jacob Puts Perspective in Perspective at London’s RIBA

Disappear Here, RIBA's latest show, is an eclectic reimagining of architectural perspective, from drawing convention to world-historical force.

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Post-Digital “Quitters”: Why the Shift Toward Collage Is Worrying

Collage used to be a crucial image-making technology of the mechanical age. But its time has passed, says historian Mario Carpo.

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Exhibition Captures the Moment Before Digital Took Over Drawing

Curated by Jeffrey Kipnis, Drawings’ Conclusions: The Ends of the Line is on view at 59 Franklin Street through March 2, 2018.

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The Devil Went Down to Georgian: An Artist Investigates Britain’s 300-Year Architectural Infatuation

In a new drawing show at RIBA, London-based artist Pablo Bronstein reimagines and reorients the ubiquitous Georgian-style building.

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SCI-Arc’s Robot House Aims to Change How Architects Draw and See

Robot House co-founder on how SCI-Arc's six industrial robots are being used to rethink architects' digital tools

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Design Earth’s Drawings Play With Iconic Designs While Pushing Architecture to New Scales

The firm's "Geostories" exhibition, which infuses architecture with geographic scales and ecological ideas, is on view at The Cooper Union.

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Frank Lloyd Wright Was a Proto-Algorithmic Architect

It seems that the most contemporary aspect of Wright’s work is his unique, manually recursive design process.