Is Drawing a Lost Art?

Computer-aided software has been a boon to architects, bringing speed and efficiency to the design process. But you're not alone if you wonder whether something is missing in all those precise, exact CAD renderings. In an age of digital graphics, perhaps we need to pull away from the computer and see what happens when we draw with our hands.

• Drawing and Architecture in Blueprint Magazine
• Architectural Drawings

_{Above: Gordon Strong Automobile Objective and Planetarium in Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1924-25. This perspective was part of a 2009 exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum. Colored pencil on tracing paper, 20 x 31 inches. FLLW FDN # 2505.039 © 2009 The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona}