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Perspective Unveiled: Architectural Insights from Painting

Throughout history, perspective has been pivotal for artists and architects, with roots tracing back to Leon Battista Alberti's seminal treatise, "De pictura" (On Painting) in 1435. His work revolutionized artistic and architectural representation, providing a systematic method for creating convincing illusions of depth and space.

Pros and Cons of One-Point Perspective:

One-point perspective, with its single vanishing point, offers simplicity and clarity, making it accessible for beginners. It excels in scenes with objects facing the viewer but struggles with complex angles, potentially leading to distortion and limitations in depicting diverse viewpoints.

Pros and Cons of Two-Point Perspective:

Two-point perspective introduces depth variation and versatility, allowing for dynamic compositions and realistic spatial relationships. However, it's more complex and requires careful alignment of multiple vanishing points, posing challenges in managing distortion and accuracy, especially towards the edges.

Hidden Possibilities and Limitations:

Perspective drawing offers insights beyond technicalities, shaping our understanding of spatial perception and composition. By delving into its historical development and nuances, architects can enrich their design practice and discourse, leveraging perspective's expressive potential.

Perspective, a cornerstone of artistic and architectural representation, continues to shape our contemporary environment amidst the digital age, intersecting with the instrument of the camera in profound ways. In today's architectural practice, the principles of perspective remain fundamental, influencing design methodologies and visual communication strategies. Architects leverage one-point and two-point perspective techniques to convey spatial concepts and immerse stakeholders in virtual environments through advanced rendering software. The advent of digital photography and smartphone cameras has democratized architectural documentation and representation. Architects harness the camera's lens to capture built environments from various viewpoints, enabling real-time visualization and analysis.

However, while digital tools offer unprecedented capabilities in architectural visualization, they also pose challenges in maintaining authenticity and human-centred design principles. The ubiquity of digital imagery underscores the importance of critical thinking and visual literacy, as architects navigate between the idealized representations and lived experiences of built environments. In this dynamic landscape of creative exploration and technological innovation, embracing historical insights while adapting to contemporary tools enables architects to enrich architectural discourse and design practice in profound and meaningful ways.

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Aranya Low Cost Housing

Balkrishna Doshi

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Digital Collage made for a newsletter cover.

Newsletter theme: Small scale houses

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Truth . . . . . #architecture #architecturedrawing #archidrawing #architecturesketch #archisketch #sketch #drawing #church #cathedral #section #design #architecturestudent #archistudent #designlovers #architecturalrepresentation #pen #pencil #gothic #gothicarchitecture

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Go Native/Whitefield. Retail, cafe and event space on a former industrial site. A conversation between friends – oppositions and thresholds / memory and forgetting / heft and delicacy / solidity and porosity. 

@sunikondur@gonative.in @divyangshrma@annarosem25 / Collaborators: @manjunath.bl (structures, magic & inspiration) @vayam_collective(interiors) @3foldesign (landscape) @svcon_2007 (contractors) #hundredhands #gonative#architecture #architecturaldesign #architecturedrawing #architecturalrepresentation #metalbuilding #handmade#brickwork #brickarchitecture #texture #facade #walls #landscape #design #drawing #retaildesign#cafedesign #bangalore#indianarchitecture #IndianArchitects #ArchitectureAndDesign#GreenBuildings #SustainableDesign #GreenDesign #SustainableArchitecture #ArchiDaily #dezeen #ArchiGram #ArchitectureHunter

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Agir une fois avec les mains ou regarder mille fois avec les yeux ? - Agir 100 mains #ConceptionProcess #UrbanProject #clementblanchetarchitecture #architecturalmodels #architecturalrepresentation #conceptmodels https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs8x7zuBFVZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ojb5b3hkxnx6

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Of many lines, but one mind. #architecture #drawing#architecturedrawing #architecturaldrawing #architecturalrepresentation #mylar#archilovers #handdrawing

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“Shadowfold: Enveloping Space Through Light and Geometry”

This drawing evokes a delicate interplay between geometry and abstraction, representing the folding of shadows as a dynamic architectural language. The composition captures the ephemeral nature of light and its transformation into precise geometric constructs, creating an architectural “envelope” that transcends its functional purpose.

The dotted and solid lines suggest boundaries, layers, and contours, offering a sense of dimensionality. The folding of shadows, indicated by the interplay of dashed arcs and intersecting planes, conveys the transition from light to darkness and back, illustrating the evolving relationship between material and immaterial spaces.

The “envelope” here serves as both metaphor and structure—a container of ideas and spatial conditions. It represents not only a physical enclosure but also the conceptual framework in which architecture interacts with its environment. The curvature and angular transitions in the diagram hint at a site-responsive approach, embracing irregularity while retaining an inherent logic.

Ultimately, this composition suggests an architectural narrative that reconciles the intangible (shadows, light) with the tangible (enclosure, geometry). It invites reflection on how space can be shaped, not merely by its physical boundaries but by the flux of time, perspective, and movement.

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"Reviving Tradition: The Art and Challenge of Drawing in Modern Architecture"

Drawing is a complex art regardless of the materials used for the representation. As an architect, albeit a document controller, I understand the trial that has transformed the profession from pen and ink towards the digital. The departure of traditional instrumentality is both a godsend and a sadness. There are so many young guns that have little or no idea of the struggle in mastering ink. Crop circles are perhaps an acknowledgment and reaction to the enforced change of architectural representation; an underground that fully understands a value in our once cherished traditions. All is not lost! We are not looking at a mediated sense of judgements defining intelligence as misinformation. We are observing the personal sacrifices of unknown ‘soldiers’, in an attempt to wake up the planet! I too have taken this on board within my profession of architecture, fashioning drawing instruments to challenge the new status quo. They are not so much about drawing but offer a perception to the art of drawing. And while they are now real they serve as intellectual armour in a very difficult war of attrition.

STONEHENGE, Wiltshire. Aerial view of Stonehenge with crop circle in the foreground

38, The Compass of Attrition. A drawing instrument that derives an arc without a centre point.

#Architecture #Drawing #ArtOfDrawing #TraditionalSkills #ModernArchitecture #InkDrawing #DigitalTransition #ArchitecturalRepresentation #CropCircles #CreativeProcess #IntellectualArmour #ArchitecturalTradition #ArtInnovation

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Some of the work we will be exhibiting - John Fisher 

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Some of the work we will be exhibiting - Alex O’Connor

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'Barrells of Fun' Barrell Storage Company . . . . . #architecture #architecturalrepresentation #drawing #sketch #architecturedrawing #architecturesketch #archidrawing #archistudent #architecturestudent #design #designlovers #archilovers #pen #pencil #section #art #artist #visualisation #architecturevisualisation #building #buildings

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The Jelly Slug Pub . . . . . #architecture #architecturestudent #architecturaldesign #architecturerender #render #architecturalrepresentation #architecturesketch #architecturedrawings #archisketch #archi #architect #design #sketch #drawing #archinerd #archistudent #designlovers #art #artist #pen #pencil #section

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No-Town Railway Station . . . . . #architecture #notown #architecturedrawing #architecturesketch #archidrawing #archisketch #architecturestudent #archinerd #design #designlovers #building #graphic #graphicdesign #architecturalrepresentation #sketch #drawing #colour #yellow #blue #pink #architecturevisualisation #visualisation #railway #train #trains

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Moon Domicile_07: Thunder Moon #architecture #architecturaldrawing #drawing#watercolor#sketch#sketchbook#architecturedrawing#archilovers #sketchporn#architectural #architectureanddesign #architecturalrepresentation

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Bend_sectio#architecture #sketch#sketchbook#sketchporn #watercolor#architectural #architecturedrawing #architecturalrepresentation #cornelius#archilovers #superarchitects