Check out these wonderful images from Iakov Chernikhov. I’d love to see architectural imagery come back to something more unique and expressive like these. The use of color and line work makes it much more interesting than a photo-realistic rendering can ever be.
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Iakov Chernikhov, a Russian constructivist
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Aside from the place of joy, curiosity, and experimentation, how relevant are these esoteric drawings nowadays within its architectural domain. Especially when the architecture of our day is grounded in different intentions, not entirely of course, but you know with the whole humanitarian, sustainable, and transparent trends happening.
Any architecture drawing, even “bad” architecture, should attempt to represent something greater than itself (whether that be a phenomenological idea, sustainability, etc). I find it unfortunate that the end goal of so many architects/designers is photo-realistic self representation. While this may be the built result, layering additional lines, images and textures allow architecture graphics to become much more than just a representation of an unbuilt work.
its funny then because you mention something greater than itself. I may be splitting hairs here with with your meaning but if a representation is , or at least depicts something greater than the actual thing which is represented then isn’t the actual thing, the architecture, just a false promise relative to the graphics it is attached to. Maybe for this reason the less esoteric representations are more literal; to show the self evident goodness (hypothetical goodness of course)…I guess its a matter of how much abstraction between the representation and the actual thing is and whether or not this information is valid. But for sure its fun to both make and look at, but again is that all these graphics do? And sadly what does this say about the built thing which some call architecture.
The idea of a “false promise” is not at all what I am implying or hinting at. I’ve always been impressed with older Diller + Scofidio imagery. The images they produced always combined the literal architecture with and abstracted layer relating to the overall concept (or other idea).
LTL does this through their strange section perspectives. The views they create would never show up on a drawing set or be seen by the end user, but their use of imagery does a wonderful job explaining the project through an abstracted section.
Atelier Bow Wow does this as well in Graphic Anatomy
. I recently came across this book and was very impressed. They overlay the perfect amount of technical detail with perspective drawing for a “non-architect” to fully understand the intricacies and relationships in the projects.