These Beautiful Architectural Sketches Show Hand-Drawing is Alive and Well

Despite the rush of new technologies available to architects to express their designs, the humble art of hand-drawing is still alive and well. And when sketching are drafting are done well enough, they can become their own artifacts for inspiring architectural thought.

The work of architecture student Adelina Gareeva is one such example. Studying at Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering (KSUAE) in Russia, Gareeva produces incredibly detailed architectural drawings, from carefully constructed perspective drawings of St. Basil’s Cathedral, to travel sketches to more abstract architectural compositions that draw similarities to Zaha Hadid’s Suprematist paintings or the Cubist works of Georges Braques. Check out some of her best sketches below.

Pantheon, France. Perspective, details. May/15, KSUAE, Tutor - Ilnar Akhtiamov

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Cite: Patrick Lynch. "These Beautiful Architectural Sketches Show Hand-Drawing is Alive and Well" 03 Mar 2017. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/806553/these-beautiful-architectural-sketches-show-hand-drawing-is-alive-and-well> ISSN 0719-8884

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这些美丽的建筑绘画草图展示出了手工绘图艺术仍然很好的生存着

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