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 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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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. The process of design involves brainstorming, sketching, and experimenting with different ideas. By drawing parallels between unrelated concepts, they address aesthetic and functional aspects through innovative means.

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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. Explore the complete library of categories here.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 22, 2023

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum is both. Our ambition for the extension was not only to expand the complex to accommodate the museum’s growing art collection and diversifying programs, but also to reconnect it to the park and city and establish a new openness to public activities. Source by OMA and Shohei Shigematsu.

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Ronen Bekerman

MARCH 9, 2023

JOB POST Join Factory Fifteen as Senior Creative/Art Director Factory Fifteen, an acclaimed London-based CGI studio led by Bafta award-winning directors, specializes in visualization, 3D design/animation, and immersive industries. Strong design skills, ability to draw and sketch in your way. Demonstrate good editing skills.

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2022

Dezeen School Shows: a photography project that explores feelings of nostalgia and a restaurant design that contrasts rustic and contemporary elements are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Kendall College of Art and Design. Kendall College of Art and Design.

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Architonic

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Founder Hugo Volpei came up with the idea of a ‘design toilet’ after visiting one of London’s most-talked-about restaurant interiors, Sketch, with its highly artful and decorative dining concept.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

While the founder of the contemporary British brand Toogood identifies herself as a designer, with work spanning interiors , objects, furniture , clothing and art , her practice is often referred to as multidisciplinary. I like working in interiors, objects, furniture, clothing and art," she told Dezeen.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Early conceptual sketch by Gehry, 2006 © Frank O. Gehry Your early sketch for the building remains an iconic example of creative conception. My sketches don’t come out of thin air. The sketch is trying to capture that energy. Respecting that history was very important to me.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The store's concept draws from the brand's Californian origins as well as European influences, which is reflected in the lighting , furniture and materials. We imagined this new concept design layout as open as possible, which can be compared to a gallery." This creates exciting results and provides a new outlook on design.

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Hotel Designs

MAY 24, 2024

hectare Maxx Royal Bodrum Resort property offers an elevated destination resort experience with a number of thoughtfully-curated art, culinary and lifestyle partnerships. We step inside for a closer look… Perfectly located on the Bodrum peninsula’s northern shores, the 11.4

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Deezen

APRIL 18, 2024

Photos sit in large handmade screens After taking a couple of weeks to come up with an idea, Lynch came back with a sketch for A Thinking Room that was sent to the famous theatre Piccolo Teatro in Milan. "When I went to visit him he was polishing a desk and I said what are you doing? And he said, 'I do furniture. I build furniture.'"

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Architizer

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Sketching and illustration are excellent tools for idea forming and concept development, while using CAD for spatial planning is fundamental during the design process. The post The Art of Rendering: 6 Soon-To-Be-Built Projects by World-Renowned Architecture Firms appeared first on Journal. Interested in next year's program?

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DesignRulz

JUNE 18, 2023

Start with a central concept or theme and branch out to related topics, connecting them with lines. Doodles and Sketches: Let your creativity flow by doodling and sketching on a whiteboard. Educational Diagrams: Whiteboards are highly effective for visualizing complex concepts.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

AI text-to-image software like Midjourney, DALL-E and Stable Diffusion has the potential to change the way that architects approach the creation and concept stages of designing buildings and products, experts say. Whenever I'm sketching with a pencil, I don't worry if the column or whatever is in exactly the right place," Kudless told Dezeen.

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The Spaces

MAY 12, 2022

‘I’ve never really done a “normal” art exhibition in a normal space,’ says Australian artist CJ Hendry. But the thing that has changed is the concepts are getting bigger; I want to tell a bigger story, and I enjoy scale.’ Australian artist CJ Hendry. ‘That’s what I needed at this stage.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Despite the justified controversy surrounding AI art, architects need not worry about being usurped by software that can generate images of buildings, argues Will Wiles. The first is that art made by artificial intelligence (AI) is here to stay. The second is that AI art will remain controversial, and rightly so.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whitehead and Cluroe came up with the concept based on their own experiences of trying to break into the design industry and being made to feel like outsiders. The participants were selected across design, art and fashion because Whitehead and Cluroe "didn't want to enforce boundaries in that way".

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Shades of Grey

MARCH 25, 2024

Firstly the NUST campus itself, (which I believe was a collaboration with an American concept architect) and then the Bulawayo Centre, in a similar colourful style with a nod in the Post Modern direction. That brings us to two art works rescued from my house in Zimbabwe. Both by my Dad, who was an art teacher.

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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The concept for Dronning Sonjas Plass proposed a unique urban meeting place in the coastal city of Ålesund. Image © Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter The building appears extroverted, robust, timeless, and inviting – as a worthy addition in the characteristic Art Nouveau architecture of its surroundings.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With a major retrospective now on show at MAD Brussels, Spanish designer Jaime Hayon tells Dezeen how his "serious fun" style has helped him jump between fine art and industrial design in this interview. I believe that if you have a concept and a style, you can do anything you want," he told Dezeen. "If

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aasarchitecture

JULY 31, 2023

Image © 10 Design Led by Design Principal Peby Pratama, the “grassland village” concept of the future school breaks away from the traditional primary school layout within a singular institutional building. The school masterplan includes 48 teaching units, alongside specialised education facilities for science, art, PE, IT and performance art.

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Deezen

MAY 17, 2023

Read: Art is "the medium I want to express myself in" says Samuel Ross At the entrance to the gallery is Border – a low coffee table made from fired wenge wood, aluminium and powder-coated steel. In an in-depth interview earlier this year, he told Dezeen that fine art is something he will do "forever".

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

They also enhance their real-world preparedness, presentation skills and conceptual sketching abilities, culminating in comprehensive project development. This project involves a concept design that weaves biophilic elements into a university's interior to augment students' creativity, productivity and engagement.

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Habitus Living

JULY 26, 2022

In the morning after, Aitken sketched a series of ephemeral graphic patterns that lived on her drawing board for years until the partnership with TSAR Carpets provided the opportunity to turn her dreams into reality. Each rug is the result of a strong collaborative effort between Aitken and TSAR Carpets.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The exhibition, which was curated by Johnson, explores the conception of the surrealist movement in the 1920s and the impact it has had on the design world ever since. The exhibition features nearly 350 pieces of art, design, photography, fashion and film. The exhibition is segmented into four themes.

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Architizer

MAY 10, 2023

Architizer’s inaugural Vision Awards , a new global awards program celebrating the art of architectural representation, includes categories for all manner of technology, including photorealistic visualizations, animations, and even AI-generated imagery. Hand drawings and physical models are valuable in their own right.

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Dwell

AUGUST 29, 2023

His mother and aunt both encouraged him to go to magnet schools for visual art from a young age, with a brief sojourn into a music program—he also plays piano and violin. I make textile fabrics for interiors and fine art sculpture. I write concepts, ideas, and sketches in my journal. What’s the last thing you designed?

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Diva showcases clothing, accessories, film, music, portraiture, sketches and film Diva 24 June 2023 to 7 April 2024 The V&A Museum hosts the Diva exhibition, which explores the designs behind 'divas' and how the role has changed throughout time. Makerversity is a business support community led by Somerset House.

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Community Architect

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Video ) The grand spiral stair in the center hall (School website) The highly design oriented firm that hired me in 1977 had won a design competition for the new high-school with artful renderings and a concept that was a respectful but also impressive infill. The design seems to have passed the test of time.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

School: The Center for Research, Innovation and Design (CRID) , School of Architecture, Art, and Design. School statement: "The Center for Research, Innovation and Design (CRID) is the first and only authorised VR sketch training centre and Gravity Sketch certified centre in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region.

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ArchiDiaries

JANUARY 6, 2022

We emphasize on the integrality, innovativeness, and feasibility throughout the project cycle, through the multi-discipline cooperation, we aim to find the best solution in the process to balance many factors including concept, materials, technology, cost, construction, limitations.

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Dwell

AUGUST 29, 2023

I think "broken items" that have been repaired with a bit of imagination can have this interesting contemporary art kind of beauty. This concept of yielding to overcome strength, I find it very much like human relationships, which is fascinating. My art teacher would ask us to draw based on our own impressions of the grasslands.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 1, 2022

These Finalists will then be reviewed by a stellar cast of practitioners and thought leaders from the worlds of architecture, design, art and technology, each with a special connection to drawing. Wines is founder and president of SITE, a New York City -based architecture and environmental arts organization chartered in 1970.

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The Student Architect

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The beautiful hand-drawn renderings, whimsical sketches, expertly crafted models. Let's make one thing clear—architecture school isn't art school. Does it help to have art skills and to be able to translate your thoughts and ideas clearly on paper? You've seen it before, right? See also: How to Avoid All-Nighters ?

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Bustler

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

With the success of the Rural Children's Art Carnival as a testament to GuangShan's commitment to becoming a Child-Friendly County, this competition marks the next significant stride towards creating an enchanting haven for children's artistic expression. Additionally, submit sketches, work photos, and other relevant process materials.

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