Before architecture becomes a building, it exists as something much more fragile. It may begin as a thought, a movement, a feeling, a relationship, a question or an invisible principle that has not yet found a physical form. Architects and designers therefore need tools that can capture these early ideas before they become too complex, too technical or too fixed. Diagrams and ideograms are among the most powerful tools for doing exactly this. They allow us to transform though

Architectural sketching begins long before the pencil touches the paper. It begins with the way we look at the world. An architect walking through a city does not only see buildings. The architect sees proportions, rhythms, masses, openings, shadows, surfaces, perspectives, relationships, movement and hidden geometries. A street becomes a composition. A window becomes a module. A shadow reveals depth. A human figure becomes a measurement of scale. Architectural sketching is t