Rendered Futures: Drawing architecture

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Published on the occasion of the exhibition:

28 Jun–24 Aug 2025

Curated by Kim Paton and Michael McCabe

This comprehensive companion publication provides insightful descriptions of each of the 77 works that comprise the exhibition Rendered Futures, alongside biographies of all featured practitioners.

Rendered Futures charts five decades of architectural drawing, capturing the final years of architecture as an exclusively hand-drawn discipline to today’s digital culture dominated by the aesthetics of the stylised render.

The exhibition brings together drawings from more than fifty Aotearoa architects, spanning recent graduates and practising architects across multiple generations; here, technical drawings, sketches and works of art all jockey for position. A breadth of mark-making is expressed, from creative exploration to the formative stages of the design and construction process, mapping the enduring modes of drawing that architects return to.

Editor: Victoria McAdam

Researcher: Lucy Treep

Rendered Futures: Drawing architecture is presented by Objectspace’s Strategic Partner ECC and supported by The Warren Trust.

Colour Partner: Resene
Product Partner: Laminex