Sketch
A rendering of the basic elements of a composition, often made in a loosely detailed or quick manner. Sketches can be both finished works of art or studies for another composition.
Featured Works
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Sketch for Homage to New York
Jean Tinguely
1960
Study for Madeleine
Henri Matisse
c. 1901
Study for Les Demoiselles D'Avignon
Pablo Picasso
Paris, early 1907
Sketch for the choreographer of the ballet Aleko
Marc Chagall
1942
Court House, project (Perspective sketch with mural)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1934
National Commercial Bank, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Five plan...
Skidmore Owings & Merrill
1977
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla...
Louis I. Kahn
1965
Salk Institute for Biological Studies (laboratory, meetin...
Louis I. Kahn
1962
Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan, Exterior perspec...
Rafael Viñoly
1991
Generator Project, White Oak, Florida, Selections of Desi...
Cedric Price
1978-80
Gotthard Bank, Lugano, Switzerland (Preliminary sketch)
Mario Botta
1982–1986
House, Viganello, Switzerland (Plan, preliminary sketch)
Mario Botta
1981–1982
Generator Project, White Oak, Florida, Plan and perspecti...
Cedric Price
1978-80
Generator Project, White Oak, Florida, Sketch, "On St. Ma...
Cedric Price
1978-80
Generator Project, White Oak, Florida (Selection of Desig...
Cedric Price
1978–1980
Unidentified project (Perspective)
Erich Mendelsohn
c. 1935
Tokyo International Forum, 1989-1996, Tokyo, Japan, East ...
Rafael Viñoly
1989
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (Ex...
Mario Botta
1996
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Hong Kong, China, .1 Axonome...
Norman Foster
1985
Chikatsa-Asuka Historical Museum, Minami-Kawachi, Osaka, ...
Tadao Ando
1989-1993
Forest Building, Richmond, Virginia (Perspective)
SITE
1978
Memorial to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs project, New Y...
Louis I. Kahn
1968
Chikatsu-Asuka Historical Museum, Minami-Kawachi, Osaka, ...
Tadao Ando
1991
Tribune Review Publishing Company Building, Greensburg, P...
Louis I. Kahn
1958
Tribune Review Publishing Company Building, Greensburg, P...
Louis I. Kahn
1958
Church on the Water, Tomamu, Hokkaido, Japan, Plan and sk...
Tadao Ando
1985–1988
Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan (View of plaza wi...
Rafael Viñoly
1991
Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan, Exterior perspec...
Rafael Viñoly
1991
Generator Project, White Oak, Florida, Perpsectives and s...
Cedric Price
1977-1978
Generator Project, White Oak, Florida, Sketches
Cedric Price
1978-1980
Philadelphia College of Art, project, Philadelphia, Penns...
Louis I. Kahn
1964
The Atheneum, New Harmony, IN (Interior persepective)
Richard Meier
1975–1979
Nara Convention Hall, Nara, Japan, Preliminary sketches
Arata Isozaki
1992
Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan (Exterior perspec...
Rafael Viñoly
1991
Fun Palace for Joan Littlewood Project, Stratford East, L...
Cedric Price
1959–1961
Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan (Exterior perspec...
Rafael Viñoly
1991
Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan (Exterior perspec...
Rafael Viñoly
1991
University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts, Toledo, ...
Frank O. Gehry
1990
The Atheneum, New Harmony, IN (Preliminary sketch: plan)
Richard Meier
1975-79
Alamillo Bridge and Cartuga Viaduct, Seville, Spain, Elev...
Santiago Calatrava
1988
Video Clip Folly Project, Groningen, The Netherlands, Ext...
Wolf D. Prix
1993
First Unitarian Church and School, Rochester, New York, R...
Louis I. Kahn
1960
Mountain House Studies Project, No intended site known (p...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
after 1938
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla...
Louis I. Kahn
1963
Memorial to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs, project, New ...
Louis I. Kahn
1968
Mikveh Israel Synagogue, project, Philadelphia, Pennsylva...
Louis I. Kahn
1965
Fine Arts Center, School, and Performing Arts Theater, Fo...
Louis I. Kahn
1963
Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building and Biol...
Louis I. Kahn
1957
National Commercial Bank, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Three pla...
Skidmore Owings & Merrill
1977
Tribune Review Publishing Company Building, Greensburg, P...
Louis I. Kahn
1958
Tribune Review Publishing Company Building, Greensburg, P...
Louis I. Kahn
1958
Generator Project, White Oak, Florida, Design Thoughts Us...
Cedric Price
1977-1978
House Morbio Superiore, Switzerland (Plan, preliminary sk...
Mario Botta
1982–1983
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla...
Louis I. Kahn
1963
Mikveh Israel Synagogue, project, Philadelphia, Pennsylva...
Louis I. Kahn
1963
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla...
Louis I. Kahn
1963
Gordon Wu Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jers...
Robert Venturi
1981
Gotthard Bank, Lugano, Switzerland, Preliminary sketch
Mario Botta
Unknown
Philadelphia College of Art, project, Philadelphia, Penns...
Louis I. Kahn
1965
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla...
Louis I. Kahn
1965
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla...
Louis I. Kahn
1965
Fine Arts Center, School, and Performing Arts Theater, Fo...
Louis I. Kahn
1963
Gotthard Bank, Lugano, Switzerland (Preliminary sketch)
Mario Botta
1982-86
The Tokyo Design Center, Tokyo, Japan, Perspective
Mario Bellini
1989
Travel Sketch for Sainte Cécile Cathedral, Albi, France, ...
Louis I. Kahn
1959
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla...
Louis I. Kahn
1965
Charrette Submission for The Museum of Modern Art Expansi...
Steven Holl
1997
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla...
Louis I. Kahn
1964
Lewis Thomas Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Princeton ...
Robert Venturi
1983
Generator Project, White Oak, Florida, Axonometric sketch
Cedric Price
1978-80
Charrette Submission for The Museum of Modern Art Expansi...
Wiel Arets
1997
Villa Snellman, Djursholm, Sweden, Elevation of garden fa...
Erik Gunnar Asplund
c. 1917
Library and Office Building of Salman Schocken, Jerusalem...
Erich Mendelsohn
Unknown
Hadassah University Medical Center, Mount Scopus, Jerusal...
Erich Mendelsohn
1936
Hadassah University Medical Center, Mount Scopus, Jerusal...
Erich Mendelsohn
1936
Hadassah University Medical Center, Mount Scopus, Jerusal...
Erich Mendelsohn
1935
House, Northern Delaware, Preliminary study of west eleva...
Robert Venturi
1978
Nara Convention Hall, Nara, Japan, Site-plan sketch
Arata Isozaki
1992
Nara Convention Hall, Nara, Japan, Perspective sketches f...
Arata Isozaki
1992
Woodland Chapel, Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm, Sweden, Fr...
Erik Gunnar Asplund
c.1918-1920
Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan (Sketch, transver...
Rafael Viñoly
1991
Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan (Exterior perspec...
Rafael Viñoly
1991
Parc de la Villette Project, Paris, France (Jogging Track)
Zaha Hadid
1982-83
Market Street East Studies, project, Philadelphia, Pennsy...
Louis I. Kahn
1962
Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building and Biol...
Louis I. Kahn
1957
Tribune Review Publishing Company Building, Greensburg, P...
Louis I. Kahn
1958
Tribune Review Publishing Company Building, Greensburg, P...
Louis I. Kahn
1958
Eleanor Donnelley Erdman Hall, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Ma...
Louis I. Kahn
1960-61
Mikveh Israel Synagogue, project, Philadelphia, Pennsylva...
Louis I. Kahn
1963
Mikveh Israel Synagogue, project, Philadelphia, Pennsylva...
Louis I. Kahn
1962
Mikveh Israel Synagogue, project, Philadelphia, Pennsylva...
Louis I. Kahn
1963
Mikveh Israel Synagogue, project, Philadelphia, Pennsylva...
Louis I. Kahn
1965
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla...
Louis I. Kahn
1963
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla...
Louis I. Kahn
1964
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla...
Louis I. Kahn
1963
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla...
Louis I. Kahn
1964
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla...
Louis I. Kahn
1965
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla...
Louis I. Kahn
1963
Salk Institute for Biological Studies (laboratory, meetin...
Louis I. Kahn
1960
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India, Plan sk...
Louis I. Kahn
1963
Indian Institute of Managementm, Ahmedabad, India, Plan s...
Louis I. Kahn
1964
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India, Elevati...
Louis I. Kahn
1963
Philadelphia College of Art, project, Philadelphia, Penns...
Louis I. Kahn
1965
Cathedral of St. John the Divine Project, New York City, ...
Santiago Calatrava
1992
House, Pregassona, Switzerland (Plan, preliminary sketch)
Mario Botta
1979
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Morris House, Mount Kisco, New York...
Louis I. Kahn
1958
National Commercial Bank, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Four plan...
Skidmore Owings & Merrill
1977
Building Form Studies, project, Perspectives
Hans Hollein
1962
Gericke House Project, Wannsee-Berlin, Germany, Elevation...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1932
Generator Project, White Oak, Florida, Perspectives and s...
Cedric Price
1978–1980
Generator Project, White Oak, Florida, What's this? - a m...
Cedric Price
1979
Generator Project, White Oak, Florida, Sketches
Cedric Price
1978-80
Generator Project, White Oak, Florida, Selection of Desig...
Cedric Price
1978-80
Generator Project, White Oak, Florida, Overriding archite...
Cedric Price
1978-80.
Generator Project, White Oak, Florida, Development of the...
Cedric Price
1978-80
Les Eschelles du Baroque Apartment Building, Paris, Franc...
Ricardo Bofill
1987
Generator Project, White Oak, Florida, Investigations of ...
Cedric Price
1978-1980
National Commercial Bank, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Five plan...
Skidmore Owings & Merrill
1977
Sketch for Fishdance Restaurant, Kobe, Japan, Exterior pe...
Frank O. Gehry
1986-87
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla...
Louis I. Kahn
1964
First Unitarian Church and School, Rochester, New York, R...
Louis I. Kahn
1969
Nara Convention Hall, Nara, Japan, Sketches of main hall
Arata Isozaki
1992
Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building and Biol...
Louis I. Kahn
1957
Civic Center Studies, project, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
Louis I. Kahn
1956-57
Resor House Project, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 588 sketches
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1938
Mikveh Israel Synagogue, project, Philadelphia, Pennsylva...
Louis I. Kahn
1962
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla...
Louis I. Kahn
1963
Fine Arts Center, School, and Performing Arts Theater, Fo...
Louis I. Kahn
1963
Nara Convention Hall, Nara, Japan, Sketches for main hall
Arata Isozaki
1992
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla...
Louis I. Kahn
1964
Mikveh Israel Synagogue, project, Philadelphia, Pennsylva...
Louis I. Kahn
1965
Court House Project, Exterior sketches: elevation, two pe...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
n.d.
Study for an Office Building, project, Tokyo, Japan, Exte...
Fumihiko Maki
1980
City Tower project, Philadelphia, PA (Perspective sketch)
Louis I. Kahn
1952-1953
Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan (Exterior perspec...
Rafael Viñoly
1991
Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan (Exterior perspec...
Rafael Viñoly
1991
French & Company, project, New York (Manhattan), New York...
Michael Graves
1978
Church of the Light, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan (Plan)
Tadao Ando
1989
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India, Plan an...
Louis I. Kahn
1964
Philadelphia College of Art, project, Philadelphia, Penns...
Louis I. Kahn
1965
Church of the Light, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan, Interior pers...
Tadao Ando
1989
Philadelphia College of Art, Project, Philadelphia, Penns...
Louis I. Kahn
1965
Civic Center Studies, project, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
Louis I. Kahn
1957
Gated Wall, Perspective and elevation
Erich Mendelsohn
Unknown
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla...
Louis I. Kahn
1962
The Planet as Festival: Study for Design of a Stadium for...
Ettore Sottsass
1972-73
Conchoidal Chair with Arms (Elevation sketch)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
early 1940s
Dymaxion House, project (Perspective)
R. Buckminster Fuller
1930
House for Rita, project, Perspective
Leon Krier
1974