Opinion

Architectural renderings have always misled – now more than ever

By 2023-07-04T06:30:00

Eleanor Jolliffe

We draw for a variety of reasons, all of which have their own validity, but renderings have always blurred the line between what is and is not achievable in bricks and mortar, writes Eleanor Jolliffe

Lately I have been pondering architectural drawings. When I started working following Part II I did a year or so in masterplanning. My drawings were cityscapes with colours that would be easily interpreted by clients. Everything tended towards the 1:5,000.

For the last five or more years I have mostly been working on RIBA Stages 3 and later – my drawings have all tended towards the technical and detailed.1:200 began to feel very zoomed out.

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