This exhibition at New York School of Interior Design focuses on hand drawings by 12 established and emerging New York–based architects and interior designers. Drawings and design portfolios from the New York School of Interior Design Archives provide context for this contemporary work.
Today, when computer imagery is ubiquitous, there remain a number of contemporary architects and designers who persist in drawing interiors by hand. Their drawings enhance the designers’ powers of observation. They promote the understanding of scale and proportion.
Design historians and curators Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins draw on their own experience witnessing the rise of CAD and the demise of hand rendering, to highlight this ongoing practice that reminds us of both the artisanry and ideation that the nearly wholesale adoption of CAD by the design industry has marginalized.
Hand renderings exert an impact on the client or viewer. Distinct from other types of interior design drawings—plans, sections, and linear elevations—renderings emphasize the depiction of three-dimensional form and space, often using color and emphasizing the effects of light.
The architects and designers featured in the exhibition include: Mita Corsini Bland, William Georgis, Leyden Lewis, Douglas Wright, Peter Pennoyer.