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Historically, drawing has been the lingua franca of architects, but today, software reigns. 3D modeling has displaced hand-drawing and photorealist renderings are the standard—the only way to meet client expectations, gain commissions and win competitions. Thinking with one's hands risks becoming a precious artisanal aspect of the practice, confined to private ideation sessions among colleagues and clients, as it fades from the public conception of building design. In fact, many innovative new projects are effectively impossible to draw by hand.

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Wake Forest-based architecture journalist J. Michael Welton, editor of the new book Drawing from Practice: Architects and the Meaning of Freehand, aims to restore the heritage of drawing to the authentic architectural vision it represents. Welton talked to 26 high-profile firms, several of them based in North Carolina, about the importance of drawing to their practice. The conversations prove that at its root, architecture is still an artistic discipline.......Continue Reading

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