Architectural drawings get their due in two museum shows.

The architecture of the Gothic period (ca 1150—1550 CE) belongs to the most significant manifestations of human culture. The development of a skeletal system supported by flying buttresses represents ...

Hans Holbein the Elder (German, ca. 1465–1524); Portrait of the Architect Mathes (Matthäus) Roriczer ca. 1490–93; silverpoint on gray-white prepared paper, later partially covered with gray body color ...

The oldest surviving architectural drawings are of Strasbourg Cathedral, which was begun around 1250, but this façade elevation from about a decade later is so visually sophisticated that it suggests ...