Illustration

During the initial years of architecture training, hand drawn plans were compulsory. Thus a relationship between pen and paper was forcefully born. Perfection can only be attained through photography, but there’s something magical about the act of drawing in itself: images travel from reality through the eyes, they go from eyes to brain, from brain to hand, from hand to instrument (pen, pencil, etc.) and from instrument to paper (or other). This makes processing an image through feelings, emotions and reason inevitable.

At the beginning, plans looked like plain boxes floating on a piece of paper. This lead to further research on how to not only express volume (shadows, textures, etc.), but put an architectural design in context (surroundings, plants, etc.).