[ Filed under More or in the Art of Design category ] Gone are the times of the actually-blue print and waning are the days of drawing architecture by hand. Today, more models than not are also programmed into a computer and, with the press of a button, generated by a laser-cutting or similar machine. Technology has made all kinds of amazing things possible for architects, but what is being lost along the way … and are there still designers who will rise to the challenge of mixing real-life models and drawings with new-school digital design programs? Ryoko & Keisuke Masuda have been featured here before – photographs of their built works shown alongside analysis – but what about the idea-generating pre-construction documents? Here is one (as yet unbuilt) home they designed and illustrated using a mixture of media to not only explore the spaces being conceived but to communicate the sensation of actually living there to a client – a life-like three-dimensional and experiential sequence told in two dimensions.

Originally posted here : Modeling & Drawing: Timeless or Dying Architectural Arts?