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10 instagram accounts to follow for architects and the archi-curious.

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Instagram has become an indispensable tool in today’s technology based design world. It connects architects, designers and anyone interested in the visual arts around the world under one user-friendly platform.

Instagram’s seemingly endless collection of images provides a source of inspiration, a simple method to track the latest trends, and an opportunity to share skills, tips and ideas with a wider audience. As a result, it is impossible to deny its growing influence and value in architectural terms.

Most of us, who have a professional or personal relation to architecture, might be familiar with the popular architecture-related accounts on the platform, such as Archdaily, Dezeen, Architectural Digest, or accounts belonging to world famous architectural firms.

Here are 10 suggestions to veer off the trodden path, and explore some of the lesser known, but wonderful Instagram accounts for you:

1. @lukeadamhawker – Luke Adam Hawker

Hiked up to the very cosy @plainofsixglaciers tea house, warming hikers up since 1927. Just happened to have a perfect view of one of a log cabins. The cabins around the tea house are for staff, who hike up and stay 5 days at a time…no wonder they were all so happy and friendly.

Luke Adam Hawker is an artist and illustrator, who draws architectural highlights on location with pen and ink. His account is full of fantastic drawings and videos in the subject’s immediate context.

2. @mauriciotufino – Mauricio Tufiño

The neighborhood colloquially know as “Nuevo Polanco” in Mexico City is a good example of urban renewal. An area where it used to be factories and warehouses there is now museums, offices, apartment buildings, shopping centers and even an aquarium right in the middle of the city, and the area is still in constant tranformation. Due to its fast growth there is a lack of infraestructure and more efficient ways to connect “Nuevo Polanco” with the rest of the city, but there is also a master plan towards 2030 where the city expects to solve most of this problems. #CNNMyCity @CNN @CNNireport

Mauricio Tufiño displays a selection of images that depict interesting, iconic, or strange buildings from around the world. It is possible to explore a wide range of architecture from ancient to modern, seen in detail or in a large context.

3. @artsytecture – ARTSYTECTURE

Narrows. By Constantine Rybkin Designer 📐 Located in Utah, USA📍🇺🇸 #artsytecture

The Instagram account of the magazine Artsytecture, this page shares projects and design details focusing on the effect of the atmosphere and the ambiance. Catch some beautiful photographs here.

4. @act.of.mapping – Act of Mapping

Repost from @felipecorrea_sc | Sectional visualization of subsidence rates in #jakarta Indonesia. From Jakarta New Models for Collective Life. Residential and high-rise tower and podium typologies exert by far the most downward pressure on the land given that the primary method of construction in the region for these types of buildings is reinforced concrete. The program and uses of such complexes also tend to be extremely water intensive.

Cartography is a type of “visual architecture” that analyses, selects, shapes and represents a complex set of data in spacial terms. This account explores the different methods of mapping in terms of architecture, landscape, urbanism and the population. Check this page out for inspiration on different representational techniques, if not for the actual data they depict.

5. @ihaveathingforwalls – #ihaveathingforwalls

#strideby @fredrikthunberg Congratulations! #ihaveathingforwalls Chosen by @scans.film

If, like most architects, you have a thing for walls, texture, art, and life, don’t miss out on this page filled with thousands of fantastic walls.

6. @architectanddesign – Architecture & Design

Some people dream of success, others stay awake to achieve it. (Caption by: @zainab.3010)📍#Brussels #Belgium 📸: @ssnnas #architectanddesign

As its name suggests, this account shares a wide range of architectural projects and designs. Most of the images evoke a sense of whimsical creativity that encourages thinking outside the box.

7. @cimkedi – Yener Torun

I’m Outta Here!

Yener Torun, a contemporary artist in Turkey, has created this account to explore our relationship to space through geometric abstraction. His photographs show geometry, color and rhythm in a unique way.

8. @disbudakhaydar – Haydar Dışbudak

Haydar Disbudak is an architect, who combines art, literature and technique in his drawings with beautiful details. He illustrates his architectural projects in such a unique way that reads like a page from a mystery book, or a nostalgic photograph.

9. @letsshowitbetter – Show It Better

By Adam Masset Use #showitbetter to be featured Follow @letsshowitbetter

Show It Better is a wonderful account that acts as an architectural presentation hub, sharing ideas for different representational techniques to communicate your architectural concepts in the most efficient and interesting way.

10. @bartlettkiosk – Students-Drawings-Models-Crits

@bartlettkiosk #Repost @jerome_ng_xinhao ・・・ The Oasis of Memories: Architecture has Long been a common and prevalent means of giving a commemorative presence to memory. Located within Pirita Convent Ruins, a Neurological Research Centre is proposed where the care and maintenance of the Historical Chapel becomes a vehicle for neurological therapy. #bartlettschoolofarchitecture #bartlett #studentwork #architecture #drawing #bartlettkiosk

This account is an archive of the work by architecture students in the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. You can find many drawings, models or photographs that reflect the conceptual and creative side of architecture and design.

Author's Pick

@accidentallywesanderson – Accidentally Wes Anderson

#AccidentalWesAnderson Hotel Opera | Prague, Czech Republic | c. 1891 • The Opera Hotel is a six-story neo-renaissance hotel with 67-rooms and commercial space built in 1891 in the center of Prague, Chzech Republic • At the time of construction, the only commercial space was a restaurant on the first floor, then during the first half of the 20th century, the floor-by floor hotel conversion took place after the current owners’ ancestor, Karel Ceska, bought the building in 1918 • Shortly after seizing power in 1948, the Communist Party nationalized the hotel – the communists seized the hotel without Karel’s consent and without compensation • While under state control, the hotel fell into disrepair due to neglect and mismanagement, and it wasn’t until 1992, after the fall of communism, when the hotel was returned to the Ceska family • A major renovation then took place and as the hotel needed to continue running while the renovation took place, the project took 12 years to complete • Know more? Please comment below! • 📸: @valentina_jacks • ✍️: @wikipedia

If you have watched The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Life Aquatic with Steve Steve Zissou, or his many other works, you know that Wes Anderson is a filmmaker with a very unique style of scenography and narrative style. This account shares images of symmetrical, atypical images of real life locations that recall Anderson’s particular style and provoke the imagination.