Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan (Exterior perspective)

Rafael Viñoly

1991

A crayon-on-paper exterior perspective by Rafael Viñoly presenting his design for Tokyo International Forum, intended to communicate the building’s sweeping glass-and-steel form and public presence.

Bold, energetic crayon strokes carve a curving, glass-enclosed volume across the page, the elongated perspective and smudged color suggesting scale, movement, and sunlight glancing off metal and glass.

The drawing exemplifies the late-20th-century use of expressive hand-rendered perspectives to promote ambitious, technology-driven civic architecture and foreshadows Viñoly’s reputation for dramatic public spaces that blur interior and urban life.

Art Terms

Architectural drawing Architecture Drawing Perspective Sketch Design Built environment

Exhibitions

Visionary Architecture

1960

Architectural Models from the Collection

1974

Architecture of Museums

1968

Modern Architecture for the Modern School

1942