Travelling Sketches (II) – A Praise to Cities

From small details to broader perspectives, drawing the city can easily become an addiction for architects. Understanding how men’s ultimate habitat developed and took over the natural territory is something almost irresistible. How the oldest cities seem to grow organically, in permanent adaptation to physical conditions and with an exponential empirical method of expansion. OrContinueContinue reading “Travelling Sketches (II) – A Praise to Cities”

El Cuaderno de Viajes (II)

Second Take This time, on the second article dedicated to Miguel Garcia’s travelling sketches, he presents us, with the same accute eye and gifted hand, his drawings using color. Hand sketchers tend to use simple black pens to make their drawings. Pilot pens or markers will do, in most ocasions. The time spent on makingContinueContinue reading “El Cuaderno de Viajes (II)”

El Cuaderno de Viajes (I)

Introducing Miguel I first met Miguel Garcia back in 2006, when I started working for a large international design firm in Madrid where, for my fortune, Miguel was also working. I was coming from a small ”boutique” sized design practice, developing residential projects and making public competitions. I had only six years of experience onContinueContinue reading “El Cuaderno de Viajes (I)”