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Architectural Sketching [or How to Sketch like Bob] | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

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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Street life: the urban paintings of Michael Leonard

The Spaces

Finding form Michael Leonard, ‘Trees on Charing Cross Road’ sketch, 1955. (c) c) Michael Leonard Leonard began his artistic education at St Martin’s School of Art in the 1950s, where he studied Commercial Design and Illustration pragmatically, feeling that it would provide him with a better career than practising Fine Art.

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Drawing Resources

30X40 Design Workshop

Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK) Famous for its comprehensive collection of decorative arts and design. Its searchable archives (unlike many online museum sites) easily lead you to some wonderfully detailed and rich architectural drawings, sketches and even architectural models by some of the masters.

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"If you have a style you can do anything you want" says Jaime Hayon

Deezen

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. The show includes cactus-inspired totems first shown by David Gill Galleries Hayon set up his studio in 2001.

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Gestural expressions

Habitus Living

Aleesha Callahan: How do you approach your art practice – do you have a routine? . Having said that, I am in my studio each week, most days, and if not actively creating, I am looking at and thinking about my art. . How does art influence your life and your home? . Where do you find inspiration?

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The London Design Festival at 20

The Spaces

Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis has used the brutalist Centre Point building and the drab concrete jungle around St Giles Square as inspiration for her chunky public seating installation called Swivel. Sketch London. Bethan Gray at Sketch. The Shakespeare Art Trail. Photography: London Design Festival.

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Virgil Abloh exhibition at Brooklyn Museum includes a full-scale house

Deezen

The Brooklyn Museum iteration of the show specifically highlights Abloh's contributions and commentary on the architectural practice, including early architectural sketches by the fashion designer, who initially trained as an architect. "He Functional Art is one of the pieces on show.

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