Neither adjectives nor description are needed for introduce you Vasco Mourão, whom drawings speak for himself. Great cityscapes compositions and recognizable buildings in many cases, to get lost in them. If you are building lovers or show a high appreciation for the buildings, you will know appreciate the value of his images.

Architect and illustrator, this Portuguese stands out for illustrating cities with isometric perspectives, where every building, every detail of its façades, is represented with great quality. All hand-drawn artworks often throw a review or make a simple wink, making them blow, jumping into a thousand pieces.

Among his works are world-famous and representative buildings like the Chrysler Building, the Met, the Whitney and the Guggenheim. Although probably his two best works are the reproduction of Barcelona city, the place he lives and works nowadays, and the publication "New York Perceptions" for the magazine The New Yorker.

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Vasco Mourão was born in Tomar, Portugal, in 1979. Also known as Mister Mourão, he is a Portuguese architect, illustrator, and visual artist. After training and working in architecture, he gradually shifted his career towards drawing and the visual arts. His work is distinguished by highly detailed urban compositions, created mainly in black ink, in which he combines real and imaginary buildings, impossible perspectives, and intricately layered structures. He works on a wide range of surfaces, including paper, wood, stone, metal, and walls.

Mourão has produced illustrations and commissioned work for internationally renowned publications and companies such as The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Apple. His work has been exhibited across Europe, the United States, Hong Kong, and Japan. He currently divides his time and artistic practice between Barcelona and the Portuguese island of Pico.

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Published on: October 4, 2013
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metalocus, LAURA CANTO
"Vasco Mourão's hand drawn cityscapes" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/vasco-mouraos-hand-drawn-cityscapes> ISSN 1139-6415
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