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The current article explores the contribution to architectural rendering by a professional who is alien to this discipline, the Dutch illustrator and comic author Joost Swarte (born 1947). His collaboration with Mecanoo during the design of the Toneelschuur theatre is analysed an example of the artist's full participation from the beginning of the project to its final definition. The preserved graphic material has allowed an study of the role played by drawings and illustrations in every stage of the process, as well as their importance in the communication among different project agents. The analysis is later extended to other works where Swarte's intervention was either limited to certain stages of the projects or conceived as an artistic adition to architecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking as a starting point a brief analysis of the features and the most common figures found in Sverre Fehn's sketches, the main ideas that underpin his thoughts are revealed. His interest in the art of former Scandinavians and in primitive living, represented by the cave, and his personal interpretation of the horizon, are the basis of reflections that crystallize in a way of making architecture far from any mimicry with inherited forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]