The Architecture Drawing Prize

Michael Ren and Samuel Wen

UC Berkeley, USA and Melbourne School of Design, Australia

Fitzroy Food Institute

2021, hand-drawn elements with Rhinoceros 3D, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop

Fitzroy Food Institute explores themes of cultural perception, tradition and globalization. The drawing presents a top-down view of a ‘typically’ Chinese round-table dining setting. Separate presentation drawings – plans, sections, details, perspectives, diagrams and son on – are reimagined into a composite drawing, exploring a dumpling-making process that places itself beyond the kitchen and engages with its greater context.

Samuel Wen and Michael Ren are both Master of Architecture students at the University of Melbourne. The drawing was produced as part of a studio mentored by Samuel Hunter and Danielle Peck. Fitzroy Food Institute focused on designing a dumpling institute that deviated from an orientalist attitude towards Chinese culture, with the tabletop drawing reflecting communal values and cultural heritage.

Anton Markus Pasing

remote controlled studio, Germany

The Wall

2021-22, Cinema 4D

The Wall breaks free from the conventions of painting urban constellations by showing neither a scale nor a recognizable functional structure. By seeking to remove a beginning and an end, the work references anecdotal collages by the Italian radical design practice Superstudio and experimental urban cityscapes such as View of Kairouan by painter Paul Klee.

Anton Markus Pasing studied at the Munster School of Architecture and the Dusseldorf Art Academy. In 1994, he founded his studio, remote controlled, which researches expansive artistic phenomena in the border area of architecture and the fine arts. He is the recipient of multiple awards and prizes, including the Villa Massimo scholarship in Rome, and currently holds a tenure-track professorship at the Peter Behrens School of Arts at the Dusseldorf University of Applied Sciences. Pasing lives and works in Munster and Dusseldorf.

Weicheng Ye

South China University of Technology, China

The Spirit of Mountain

2022, pencil on paper

This work draws from the history of traditional Chinese painting. Travellers among Mountains and Streams, a large hanging scroll, was originally drawn by Fan Kuan in the Northern Song dynasty. Ye’s drawing offers a contemporary translation of this masterpiece. Its long composition offers a visual depiction of the spatial hierarchy of plants and skyscrapers, whilst also appearing to portray a slice of a mountain range.

A graduate of the China Academy of Fine Arts, Weicheng Ye is currently a postgraduate major in landscape design at South China University of Technology. As designer and artist, Ye is keen on using fast hand drawing and simple elements to express feelings and ideas.