Making Marks: Architects' Sketchbooks – The Creative Process

Will Jones

Hardcover | 30.48 x 3.81 x 22.61 cm | 320 pp

Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500021316 

Taking a post-digital perspective, Making Marks presents the work of sixty renowned architects to show how drawing and new forms of manual presentation have been refined since the reawakening of this basic technique.

Notepads, stacks of paper, pencils and fine-point pens are as present in the architect’s studio as phalanxes of screens. Revealing why and how hand-drawing still matters, this global survey presents the freehand drawings, vibrant watercolours and abstract impressions of rising talents and well-known names, including Jun Igarashi and Brian MacKay-Lyons.

Will Jones’s introduction reviews the importance of the physical sketch and its vital part in the architect’s creative process. Spanning diverse approaches, styles and physical forms, Making Marks is not merely a compendium of the preoccupations and stylistics of current practice, but a rich and varied insight into architectural creativity.