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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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Dezeen School Shows: metaverse homes informed by Salvador Dalí 's surrealist paintings and are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at AUD Center for Research, Innovation and Design. School: The Center for Research, Innovation and Design (CRID) , School of Architecture, Art, and Design. Student: Omar Allabban.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2022

Students in grade three and four at New York's Trinity School have created a collection of wooden chairs that express their individual personalities, in a module run by art educator Bruce Edelstein. Previous examples made by Edelstein's students include chairs with horns and an alligator chair.

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SW Oregon Architect

MARCH 27, 2022

The new Hayward Field provides everything student athletes need to realize their full potential, most notably indoor practice areas, which include a six-lane, 140-meter straightaway running track and the “Vault,” a two-story interior space for long jump, triple jump, throws, and pole vault training. The message is “Oregon is built different.”

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Deezen

JUNE 20, 2022

Dezeen School Shows: a community centre informed by patchwork construction and a rehabilitation space with curved, organic forms are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Virginia Commonwealth University. This backbone sets the foundation for the development of a design response to the student inquiries in the spring.

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Architizer

JUNE 14, 2022

James Wines is a renowned American artist and architect associated with environmental design, and is founder and president of SITE, a New York City-based architecture and environmental arts organization chartered in 1970. A selection of Wines’ sketches.

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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? The magical thing is that everyone is creative.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

MAY 18, 2023

A “Challenge Sketchbook” with a list of challenges and a checkbox next to them so the student can check them off as accomplished. Charles Kene Okigbo, ASLA Custom Outdoor Pillows “It would be super cool to print student project images.” Students can continue to develop their portfolios and the license is good for life.”

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The Architect's Guide

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

You may read my full disclosure policy for more information. Along with a T-square (if the board does not include a straightedge), pencil , and chair , a drafting board is a must-have item for hand drawing as an architect or student. Art Supply Drafting Board (26" x 21"). US Art Supply. UPDATED: February 9, 2021.

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Shades of Grey

JULY 30, 2021

Freehand sketching and painting on stretched canvas are physical activities that I have always enjoyed. As a student in “the West” I had felt like a small cog in a system that already had too many architects and where success meant helping rich people to display their wealth. Then as a mature student I proceeded to dive in headfirst.

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Hotel Designs

MAY 14, 2024

It’s difficult as we have to try and wade through all the information and make sense of what’s what. I love it as a starting point for research – obviously I double-check everything, but to find out more about an area or the history of a building the information is with you from different sources in an instant.

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Architecture Chat

MAY 6, 2019

The edition is complete with the latest syllabus, sketch book, practice tests and NATA study material. It also includes hand sketching tips from human proportions to various geometrical shapes. With this students have access to facility of free evaluation of sketches. Facility of free evaluation of sketches.

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e-architect

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Since its opening in 1988, the Museum of the Moving Image has been recognized as a major, internationally known institution and the only museum in the United States dedicated to exploring the art, history, and technology of the moving image. The exhibition immerses visitors in the art and technologies of making moving images.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

He’s an extraordinary educator who founded China’s first landscape architecture program at Peking University in 1997, graduating hundreds of master’s and doctoral degree students who have gone on to teach, practice, and influence design, development, and policy throughout China and the world. That’s why I call landscape the art of survival.

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BD+C

APRIL 3, 2023

Welcome to Life of an Architect episode 122: Architecture and Artificial Intelligence Here are the show notes from episode 122: Today we are going to start the process of discussing artificial intelligence and how it is intersecting with the practice of architecture, as well as the education process of architecture students.

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ArchiDiaries

JANUARY 10, 2022

These spaces were used for the advancement of scholarly knowledge and the creative arts. The art of music gives a direct relation between the sensitive affections of both the composer and the listener. Try using comprehensive presentation techniques; use images, illustrations, sketches, views, diagrams, text, etc. Eligibility.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 9, 2013

All students and professionals are encouraged to submit entries, which are judged by a three member panel that includes industry recognized visionaries in the graphic arts. This competition is a big deal and there are typically hundreds of entries from all over the world from both professionals, students and all points in between.

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ArchiDiaries

JANUARY 16, 2022

Though this movement saw the concept translating into art galleries, libraries, or recreational spaces, it quickly dwindled and is now used either for private constructions or as a theoretical concept. Fig: 3 – Houses for art-Wrightwood 659 (Credits-Tadao Ando). All students and professionals can participate in the competitions.

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ArchiDiaries

JANUARY 26, 2022

Streets are laden with art, architecture and cuisines that are not just indigenous to the region but also a result of internationalism. Spaces to work: Office spaces, Event halls, Meeting rooms, Information centre. Try using comprehensive presentation techniques; use images, illustrations, sketches, views, diagrams, text, etc.

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ArchiDiaries

JANUARY 30, 2022

Culture survives in society through tangible expressions in the form of music, dance, art, and so on. It consists of commercial establishments and the locality is enriched with street murals and art galleries. Try using comprehensive presentation techniques; use images, illustrations, sketches, views, diagrams, text, etc.

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e-architect

APRIL 19, 2023

The new developments all will be operated by Qatar Museums which is responsible for preserving and enlarging Qatar’s cultural endowment by overseeing the country’s growing network of museums, heritage sites, festivals, public art program, and more. They include: Museum of Islamic Art, architect: I.

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Bustler

JULY 20, 2022

The competition includes six under-36 gardens for students or young professionals: all members of the design group must be younger than thirty-six (36) on 30 November 2022. Students will be able to use a university tutor older than thirty-six (36). The deadlines for delivering the project proposals in digital format are the following.

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e-architect

JANUARY 6, 2022

From a vision specialized in the dissemination and research of architecture, it generates a critical dialogue that develops in parallel with art, design and urbanism. The invitation is open to architects and architecture students all over the world. The groups may incorporate professionals or students from other disciplines.

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 26, 2022

I did not say I was an architecture student, which I certainly was not. As Paul Rudolph later emphasized to students: “Even the king of Seagram’s had to put up with a nine-foot ceiling.” I wrote about her the day after she died in this column for the Journal, “ Sketching my mom of moms.”

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Architecture Quote

OCTOBER 30, 2020

This blog lists the 20 best drawing tablets for architects available in the market with features such as: Size: A greater surface area offers larger space to draw, sketch or edit. It captures the motion of pen and pressure information. Electronic Sketch Pad / Drawing Tablet Price: $$. Tablet for Digital Sketching Price: $.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

APRIL 13, 2023

It was a Friday, and students were making the short commute between the elementary school and the Cudell Recreation Center, located just a stone’s throw northwest. Concept sketches by Diane Jones Allen, FASLA, DesignJones LLC; concept plan by DesignJones LLC. I arrived at the Marion C. just before the day’s heat peaked.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 16, 2017

Monster Land Designers : Alisson Villarreal (Atlantico, Colombia) and Roberto Cuevas ( Atlantico, Colombia) Bio (Alisson): I’m an Industrial Designer who shares a love for art, spaces, color, contrast and nature. Bio (Sam): I am a student at Wentworth Institute of Technology on CO-OP with WBRC architects.

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Deezen

JUNE 3, 2022

Dezeen School Shows: a research facility for the exploration of possible life forms co-designed with slime and an experiment in drawing and mapping feature in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Manchester School of Architecture. This year the students' work comes full of surprises, from which this display is a small selection.

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30X40 Design Workshop

MAY 13, 2024

Whether you’re a student or a pro, I think you’ll find them invaluable: HABS (Historical American Buildings Survey) I’m a modernist through-and-through, but this is a resource even I can’t ignore. Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK) Famous for its comprehensive collection of decorative arts and design.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We are thrilled to announce the winners of Architizer's inaugural Vision Awards , the world’s biggest awards program dedicated to the art of architectural representation. In turn, drawing styles are wide-ranging, from sketching and more technical techniques to colorful collages and more.

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Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

While this represents progress, both gender and racial inequality and discrimination remains widespread in the architecture industry , from student bodies and educational institutions right through to professional organizations and the workplace as a whole. Find out more about the jury here. Anna Maria Bordas.

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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. She also won the Top Student Prize in the 2021 One Drawing Challenge! Wandile Mthiyane. Bob Borson, FAIA.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

. “The drawing represents impressions from this year’s journey to Venice, Italy, from the Lido, where we stayed, and the city, where we did some sightseeing, to the Art Biennial at the Giardini and the Arsenale and trips to Murano and Burano. Spontaneous fragments of sketches, that tell a personal yet universal story of Venice.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

We think carefully, make informed decisions and make the right connections. Their solutions are the result of a long series of consistent decisions and elaborations: diagrams and matrixes, sketches and artist’s impressions, ground plans and sections, construction models and working drawings.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The fact I included a case study chapter in Buildings in Print , as mentioned above, points to my appreciation of this sub-genre of architecture books but also to the role they have played in teaching architecture students, spreading knowledge around important works, and promoting architects and architecture within and beyond the profession.

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ArchiDiaries

JANUARY 20, 2022

Artilla is a challenge is to create a cottage resort for the artists, which can serve as a space to aid and support the artist’s art creation process. Artists’ visual art is considered to be the main focus group of this challenge. The magic of art. It has been said that art is the nearest we can ever go to magic.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The numerous buildings, projects, exhibitions, articles, lectures, and other artifacts informing Caruso St John's work are presented in seven chapters, most of them pairs: "History and the Modern," "Greece and Rome," "Chicago and Milan," "Competitions," "Thomas Demand," "Switzerland," "Art and Money."

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