Pedro Loureiro is a proud member of Urban Sketchers, an informal global community of artists who commit their surroundings to paper and can often be found sketching weddings, festivals and other events. He is also an Architectural Illustrator at Broadway Malyan’s Lisbon studio.
My job is to take the design elements of the architecture teams, in their earlier stages, and turn them into attractive perspectives that help convey the design’s atmosphere. A lot of my effort goes into telling the right story to the client through hand drawn sketches, a process that helps them make an emotional connection to the project and feel part of the design team. The important links between art and architecture are clear and yet both disciplines serve distinct needs of the human being – art demands an individual response, tending to emotional, aesthetical and intellectual needs while architecture serves the community it affects, be that a family, company, city or country.
I see architecture as large scale public service, and like art, it is created by someone with meaning, curiosity and a purpose, that can be different for everyone, but is there nevertheless. I consider myself an illustrator before an artist or an architect and absolutely never leave home without my sketchbook. My sketchbooks are a log of my wanderings and travels and my favourite drawings are those that convey the story and feelings of the places that I am in and the people that I am with. Sketching is a passion that allows me to record moments in time, tell stories and convey ideas, whether I am sat at the drawing board in a studio or wandering around a strange new city.
A sketch of lisbon by Pedro Loureiro