The Lost Art

Michael Graves, for the New York Times:

Architecture cannot divorce itself from drawing, no matter how impressive the technology gets. Drawings are not just end products: they are part of the thought process of architectural design. Drawings express the interaction of our minds, eyes and hands. This last statement is absolutely crucial to the difference between those who draw to conceptualize architecture and those who use the computer.

There is something fundamentally different about conceptualizing by hand rather than using a computer. There is a subtlety, a freedom of thought, a naturalness to drawing through ideas.