Every Picture Tells a Story

Hand drawing is arguably architecture’s oldest technology.Even as we plunge headlong into the age of artificial intelligence, drawing remains a timeless, intuitive, and powerful tool for exploring, explaining, and understanding both built and imagined environments.It remains a timeless tool for design thinking. This richly illustrated monograph features over 250 works from the 40-year career of architect Wesley L.Page, FAIA, ASAI, one of the nation’s top traditional media architectural illustrators.Rather than a “how-to” book of drawing tricks and techniques, it is a visual journal organised around a purpose-based approach to drawing architecture and how understanding the overlap of drawing, design, and storytelling can profoundly impact the power and effectiveness of architectural illustration.The drawings collectively represent a holistic approach to both conceiving of and executing drawings-not just drawing for illustration, but drawing to achieve a more intentionally targeted outco