虽然数字技术已经突破了建筑创作的边界，但构思一个原创的、合适的设计仍然是一个巨大的挑战。然而，正如这本书所显示的那样，在过去10年里，一些成功的建筑都需溯源到纸上。
本书是继《成功建筑师的速写本》之后推出的展示了数字革命后当代建筑师创作的丰富作品。从后数字化的角度来看，这里收集的60位**建筑师的作品展示了自这一基本技术重新觉醒以来，绘画和新的手工表现形式是如何被提炼的。这项全球调查揭示了为什么手绘仍然很重要，它展示了徒手绘画、充满活力的水彩画作品中不乏各种各样的新秀和知名人士，其中包括井桥俊(Jun Igarashi)、黛博拉•索特(Deborah Saunt)、丹尼尔•利伯斯金(Daniel Libeskind)、梅格•格雷厄姆(Meg Graham)和布莱恩•麦凯-莱昂斯(Brian MacKay-Lyons)等。作者威尔·琼斯在引言中回顾了实体素描的重要性及其在创作过程中的重要作用。

A rich and varied glimpse into the creative processes of a broad array of contemporary architects.

While digital technologies have pushed the boundaries of architectural creation, conceiving an original and appropriate design is as challenging as it has always been. As this book shows, however, a recent return to the basic act of putting pen or pencil to paper has produced some of the most successful buildings of the past decade.

Making Marks follows the highly successful Architects’ Sketchbooks, which presented the rich breadth of sketches created by contemporary architects post digital revolution. Taking a post-digital perspective, the sixty renowned architects whose work is collected here show how drawing and new forms of manual presentation have been refined since the reawakening of this basic technique. Revealing why hand-drawing still matters, this global survey presents the freehand drawings, vibrant watercolors, and abstract impressions of a broad and eclectic array of rising talents and well-known names, including Jun Igarashi, Deborah Saunt, Daniel Libeskind, Meg Graham, and Brian MacKay-Lyons, to name but a few. Author Will Jones’s introduction reviews the importance of the physical sketch and its vital role in the creative process.

Spanning diverse approaches, styles, and physical forms, Making Marks is not merely a compendium of the preoccupations and stylistics of current practice, but a rich and varied insight into architectural creativity.

500 illustrations