Architizer

APRIL 5, 2024

Unlike static sketches on paper, augmented drawings can come to life through animations, sound effects and interactive elements. This level of interactivity adds a new layer of engagement and immersion to the creative process, captivating audiences in ways that traditional sketches cannot.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 10, 2021

There is a nostalgia associated with architects and sketching but is it still an integral part of the design process anymore? The post Ep 066: Architects and Sketching first appeared on Life of an Architect. Continue reading Ep 066: Architects and Sketching at Life of an Architect.

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Deezen

AUGUST 7, 2023

The vernacular building techniques of north and south India combine in Hybrid House, a house with rammed-earth walls designed by Sketch Design Studio. Architecture office Sketch Design Studio designed and built the three-bedroom house in Alwar, a city located beside the Aravalli mountains in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan.

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The Spaces

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The easy elegance of her work makes sense at Sketch, an all-hours Mayfair brasserie and gallery whose longevity and relevance rely on its support of design ‘auteurs’ Sketch has fun with its half dozen spaces – including its famous alien-pod loos, where they’ve hung diaphanous architectural drawings by Tannaz Oroumchi over the toilets.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 23, 2020

the point of today's post is that sketching is hard for most people and it's okay if you end up using other tools to help get you to your destination. As one of my college professors once told me, sketch until it hurts and then keep sketching. Continue reading Sketching is Hard at Life of an Architect.

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designboom

MARCH 24, 2023

The post andrew bruno publishes ‘one house per day,’ a year-long series of sketches appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. one house per day' compiles a captivating series of 365 reimagined domestic spaces.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Despite the broad range of opinions and beliefs within the architectural profession, the overriding consensus is that both drawing styles have a place within the design world, and that their coexistence is totally possible. The beauty of an app like Spaces is its merging of old-school sketching with modern-day technology.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 21, 2022

Daniel Winterbottom, FASLA, sketching outdoors. He calls urban sketching a public act, one of vulnerability and frustration balanced with unique opportunities for dialogue, discovery, and fulfillment. Observation and contemplation of the phenomena and nuances of a scene are critical skills honed specifically through field sketching.

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Architizer

MAY 1, 2023

With special categories dedicated to Hand Drawing, Computer-Aided and AI-Aided representation, Architizer’s Vision Awards is celebrating the strengths of diverse types of Architectural Visualization and the creators behind them. Sketching is a thinking tool that reflects one’s knowledge and emotional interpretation.

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Deezen

JULY 22, 2022

Sketch Design Studio has designed and built a farmhouse in northern India that combines rammed earth walls and a thatch roof with a form inspired by stepwells. This approach led Sketch Design Studio to build Mud House with walls of rammed earth, which was sourced on site and mixed with lime and fenugreek seeds as natural binders.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) has just announced its acquisition of architect Toyo Ito ’s early-career archive. The trove entails drawings, models, and sketches related to his practice Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects (founded as Urban Robot) from 1971 until 1989.

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 12, 2019

The creative process for an architect is fairly simple for me - when I sketch, I think it slows my thought process down and forces me to think through my idea a bit more completely in my effort to actually be able to draw it out in a manner that allows someone else to understand what I am trying to convey.

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Architizer

JULY 7, 2023

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. These outputs, in other words, are not simply impressionistic digital sketches of buildings. Order your copy today.

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Shades of Grey

AUGUST 6, 2023

This Caricature is from 1974, sketched in my little pocket notebook from memory. How I wish I could sketch like that now. We studied history of architecture in art classes during my last couple of years at school. I was trying to capture characters from a few months earlier, aware that my life was moving on.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The first is completely analog and has a lot of nostalgia associated with it, while the latter is possibly more relevant in today’s digitally driven architectural profession. In an effort to take a break, I am going to focus on the sketching once again – because that’s something I’ve been doing almost every day.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

The accounts that I've included here are all spectacularly good at "architectural" sketches - which is an important distinction to make. I follow a lot of sketching accounts, probably half of which are anime-related. Continue reading Best Instagram Accounts to Follow for Architectural Sketching at Life of an Architect.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 14, 2018

Architects sketch as a part of doing their job – at least all the good ones that I know. Right now, as a general rule, it would appear that depending on how old you are, you either sketch, use computer software, or some portion of both to work through your ideas. I have indicated the area shown within the dashed white ring above.

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designboom

APRIL 20, 2022

The post an autobiography in pictures: see louis kahn’s drawings and travel sketches in new book set appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. remembered as a modernist master, architect louis kahn was also a keen artist who was ‘never not drawing’.

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designboom

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The post ross lovegrove offers intimate tour of his sketches and process in recent interview appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. the designer has made his name working at the threshold of the analogue and digital worlds.

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The Architect's Newsletter

JULY 26, 2023

Norman Foster Centre Pompidou Paris, France Through August 7 Arriving on the top floor of the Pompidou meant relishing a ride up the escalator tubes running the length of the The post From napkin sketches to riches: <em>Norman Foster</em> on view at the Centre Pompidou appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Archinect

JUNE 14, 2023

The Peter Barber -curated Royal Academy of Arts summer Architecture Room has opened in London, featuring an exhibition focusing on the role of craftsmanship in architecture. Forster’s 1910 masterpiece Howard’s End.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 11, 2015

I typically don’t give it a lot of thought – as soon as my architectural sketches have served their purpose, they get thrown away. So, keep my sketches or throw them away … I am struggling with that idea. Is this floor plan sketch art? I don’t consider them valuable or even worthwhile to keep.

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SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 14, 2024

The series is my meditation on the awesome reasons why I was and continue to be attracted to the art of architecture. At its core, architecture is about problem-solving. The process of design involves brainstorming, sketching, and experimenting with different ideas. Next Architecture is Awesome: #36 Architectural Oddities

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Case in point … on my own Instagram account, I share a fair amount of sketches and details, all sorts of ideas that I am working through. I submit as exhibit 1 and 2, some random details that I sketched up and published on Instagram for all the world to see: View this post on Instagram.

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designboom

MARCH 8, 2022

celebrating its 20th year, sketch gallery showcases shonibare’s artist-conceived vision for the restaurant, presented within a new golden setting by mahdavi. The post sketch says farewell to its iconic pink and welcomes new golden setting by india mahdavi appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

MARCH 21, 2023

AUX Architecture’s office is housed in a brick building from 1915. Large white walls provide ample pin-up space for project design sketches and drawings and allow all members of the studio to collectively – and collaboratively – participate in every project’s ideation.

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Archinect

JANUARY 29, 2023

Social housing champion and 2022 Soane Medal winner Peter Barber is set to curate the Royal Academy of Art ’s Architecture Room as part of the school’s 2023 Summer Exhibition in London. Using the curatorial theme “Only Connect” taken from the most famous line of the E.M.

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Architizer

APRIL 17, 2024

Every architectural project starts with a meticulously drawn survey. Through features such as 3D scanning, digital sketching, photographic overlay and even Bluetooth laser measuring systems, what was once a rough pen-on-paper process has now become a meticulous and seamless workflow. Explore the complete library of categories here.

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30X40 Design Workshop

MAY 23, 2022

Would you be surprised to learn that most architects aren't taught how to assemble a set of construction drawings in architecture school? Technical drawing and delineation led me to choose architecture as a career but I've come to appreciate drafting as much more than representation. Concept Sketch. I certainly was.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 6, 2014

Home / Graphics / Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Bob Borson — April 7, 2014 — 70 Comments Architectural sketching is becoming a thing of the past – at least that’s how it seems to me most days.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

About 30 days and thousands of sketches later, it’s time for the next round of Architectural Sketches – The Series. I really want to try and demonstrate that there are all sorts of ways that architects sketch and work through design challenges, but my sketches just aren’t that great as standalone items.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 9, 2018

Sketching is a hot topic regardless of the people having the discussion, but I have learned over the last nine years of writing this site that sketching is one of the more hotly contested topics. A friend of mine gave me a handful of tips that made a fundamental change to how my sketches appeared.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 9, 2018

Architectural sketches typically fall into two distinctive camps (other than “Great!” ” or “terrible”) and the relative purpose of those sketches seem to reflect the time period with when the sketch was actually created … during design or during construction.

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Deezen

JULY 12, 2022

The late British architect Zaha Hadid founded her eponymous design studio in 2006, following the success of her architectural studio. Aria and Avia are lamps combining dramatic architectural features with the intrinsic weightlessness of the material. Read: Zaha Hadid Design and Odlo launch activewear collection for women.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Home / Architects / Architectural Sketches Architectural Sketches Bob Borson — September 26, 2013 — 22 Comments Architects sketch as part of the process when doing their job … at least I do. This is a sketch from project that I am currently working on – the KHouse Modern.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Architectural rendering is not a foreign concept. During the Renaissance, Italian architects such as Leon Batista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi and Donato Bramante used axonometric sketches and carefully hand-drawn perspectives to communicate their designs. Still, the “original” artistry of architectural rendering is not lost.

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30X40 Design Workshop

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

There’s no question digital tools are an integral part of how we realize our architecture today and in the 25 years I’ve been practicing, those tools have changed and improved the way I work significantly. Sketching is thinking. Sketching is seeing. Sketching is learning. Digital tools are for executing ideas.

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