Drawings

The drawings featured here reveal the foundational craft
and techniques that underlie the agency of architectural representation. Through speculative drawings for design exploration, representational drawings for exhibitions, and working documents for specifying buildings, Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti construct architecture. Organized on this page by media, they evidence how Machado and Silvetti explore, research, critique, and imagine architecture through their drawings. The early decades are also indicative of the mediums and techniques of architectural representation before the advent of digital technology. Projects included in the archive can also be further explored through links to the collection finding aid and image viewer.

Within each group of drawings (arranged by medium), click on the images to view a high-resolution version in the Harvard Viewer, which allows you to zoom in and explore the drawings in detail.