2024-11-21T09:55:59-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150256803/post-digital-rendering-leaving-drawing-behind Juan Ramon Cantu 2021-04-01T11:21:00-04:00 >2024-01-23T19:16:08-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/af/afb4eb6a336fc3ff90ddfd562783ec55.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Not too long ago, a novel graphic representation, rebelling against the digital tools and techniques that dominated the past two decades, took the architecture world by surprise. <em>Post-Digital Drawing</em>, coming mostly from European offices, started propagating across professional circles, competitions, and academia. This style of representation, noted by <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/150055711/sam-jacob-studio" target="_blank">Sam Jacob</a>, embraces digital technology in a critical way; utilizes digital tools like Photoshop and Illustrator, and techniques like drawing and collage without aiming for realism. Instead, "this new cult of the drawing explores and exploits its artificiality, making us as viewers aware that we are looking at space as a fictional form of representation. This is in strict opposition to the digital rendering&rsquo;s desire to make the fiction seem 'real.'"<em>&nbsp;</em>However, by taking a look at the work of emerging practices, competitions, and academia today, one can discern that an evolution starts to emerge. Ironically, this evolution of the <em>Post-Digi...</em></p>