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Dear Architects! This is your special issue written by Uncube. Rediscover 'Lines' with an unusual forms and format. From Uncube, Let’s stop right here with these concocted rivalries between “analogue” & “digital”, “print” & “online”, “hand-made” & “computer-generated”. They are all one and the same thing: methods and media that have the capacity to greatly enrich our lives.

Uncube issue no. 42: Walk the Line is dedicated to the art of drawing in exactly that spirit, to the skills and tools that architects are using at the very heart of their practice – as they always have – to explore and deepen their own scope, th at of their trade and to share their ideas.

Drawing by hand, by computer, in two, three, four, or more dimensions, is one of the most powerful communication tools we have and the ways in which drawing is now used as a means of expressing form and ideas is manifold – not in spite of, but arguably because of – the post-digital shift. This issue of uncube both celebrates and investigates drawing in the architectural context and is, naturally, richly illustrated with some truly spectacular work.

Walk the Line with uncube into architecture and beyond – handmade with linear love.

Uncube's visual index. 

Essay: The Line Connects, An essay on drawing and architectural education by Wes Jones, Text: Wes Jones

Case Study: Moon Hoon, Seoul, Text: Florian Heilmeyer

Found: Drawn To Scale, Chalking the line with Vardehaugen, Text: George Kafka

Essay: Drawing Attention, Phineas Harper sketches out new narrative paths with pencil power, Text: Phineas Harper

Found: Event Horizon, Walking the lines of a 4D doughnut, Text: Fiona Shipwright

Case Study: Drawing Architecture Studio Beijing, Text: George Kafka

Case Study: Studio WEAVE , London, Text: George Kafka

Found: Narrative Illusions, The tricksy art of trompe l'oeil, Text: Sophie Lovell

Interview: The Illustrated Architect, Rob Wilson talks graphic passions with Sergei Tchoban, Text: Rob Wilson

Found: Planes & Elevations, Welcome to Shenzhen 2028, Text: Fiona Shipwright

Found: The Map Is Not The Territory, Larissa Fassler’s sketched psychogeographies, Text: Fiona Shipwright

Essay: Gotham, Elvia Wilk on a city of shadows as architectural fiction,Text: Elvia Wilk

Case Study: Raumlabor, Berlin,Text: Florian Heilmeyer

Case Study: Kosmos, New York, Moscow, Basel, Text: George Kafka

Interview: The (Not So) Fine Line, A conversation thread between Sophie Lovell and architecture cartoonist Klaus, Text: Sophie Lovell

Found: Wall-To-Wall, Mapping the densest settlement on Earth, Text: George Kafka

Bookmarked: Bookmarked, Asterix, Batman and more, Text: Florian Heilmeyer, Fiona Shipwright, George Kafka, Rob Wilson

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