HAND TO MOUSE

Once upon a time, all architectural renderings were done by hand – in pencil, pastel or ink, if not acrylic or watercolour. Michaelango’s drawings in red and black chalk, and Zaha Hadid’s metres-long colour posters that described her early projects and the ideas behind them, are just two masterly examples.

But this century’s rapid technological advancements have seen architects exchange traditional rendering tools for the computer mouse and specialist drafting software. Consequently, most commercial