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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Lines on Paper

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

I wake up early and finish a sketch of the Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf, and decide where to work today. At noon, she left me to finish the new book shelf which has been sitting in the front yard for the past 3 weeks. Sam and I decide on planting seedlings at No.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Further editions of the Roly-Poly chair have explored working with different solid materials and finishes, from brushed aluminium to gold leaf. In this primordial jelly finish, fibreglass has its glow. The finished pieces all have the energy and slight irregularity of a drawing." I had children and then Roly-Poly came.

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Shades of Grey

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This historic centre was walking distance from where my cousin lived at the time so I was able to take quite a few digital photos and also picked up a book with a number of hand drawn plans and Sections. The Way We Build" was going to be a book title. Experimenting with digital sketching tools. Fast forward to 2012.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Owners and architects Saga Karlsson and Edouard Boisse designed their lakeside retreat with a matte finish that goes with the greens of spring or a winter whiteout. An early sketch envisioned the house as an open and transparent glass volume inspired by a ’60s California residence which play with the boundary of external and internal.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

Books, tech, and lots of pens to set the newly minted designer up right. Now that they’ve finished school, you want to buy them a gift that shows them you get what they do and why they’re passionate about it. I think every landscape architect who cares about people should have a copy of this book on their shelf.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

So if books, buildings and beautiful photographs are your thing, look no further. And, this innovative book is a great way to fuel that interest. From Archidoodle, this interactive book is the first of its kind to provide a fun, engaging way to learn about architecture. In our humble opinion.

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Young Architect

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Parva remembers trying to sketch the plan of the house they were living in when she was as young as nine or ten. In college, she discovered that even after she’d finished her degree programs, she would need to take the architecture exams to officially become an architect. The book that changed everything for Parva.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In the ensuing years, she’s grown the firm, now based in North Richland Hills, Texas; fielded projects nationwide; been a finalist on HGTV’s Faces of Design and Design Star ; and wrote a book. I was sketching and designing furniture, and I had started building prototypes," says Ginger. "I But it all began with a backyard shed.

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Young Architect

MARCH 14, 2022

When he finished Architecture school, Brad became a professional musician in the beautiful city of New Orleans! These books are most reflective of the Architecture I do today. The books that changed everything for Brad . “My I keep it right on top of my sketch book!” What Brad knows today that he didn’t know then.

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Jane Griswold Radocchia

AUGUST 23, 2023

The floor itself, his sketches and calculations, would become covered with pavers when the Hall was finished and ready for use. Walker trained as a joiner in Scotland at the time when James Gibbs, also a Scotsman, was there, and when Gibb's book, 'On Architecture', was published. Gibbs' book included plans for 2 'menageries'.**

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ArchiDiaries

APRIL 30, 2022

It is home to the city’s cultural heritage, modern art, music, films and over a million books, including more than 16,000 from the Japanese occupation period and of course, is equipped with the latest technologies of a modern library. Art and books. The ground floor is spacious, transparent and warm due to the wood finish.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This year's roundup of books to give to discerning architects for the holidays is presented in pairs. While at least one book in each pair is new, the other one isn't necessarily so — new, old, or not-so-old, it is related to the first in some manner, as explained in my descriptions. Hey, architectural historians like gift books, too!)

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Habitus Living

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Find out more Books as objects of beauty A stunning coffee table book is always a good gift idea, especially for avid readers and design lovers. Crafted from cold-blown borosilicate glass, it features a soft frosted finish to set just the right balance of brightness and ambience.

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Portland Architecture

DECEMBER 12, 2022

He has also received a series of commissions in the Miami Design District in 2018 (in collaboration with SB Architects), years after publishing a book on his alleyway explorations, Tight Urbanism , in 2010. A recent Seattle house was featured in a New York Times article called " A Modern Home That Looks Toward the Sky and the Water."

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Aric Gitomer Architect

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Exterior Finishes. If you think that the exterior of your house will exactly look like those software-rendered images or the architect’s hand-drawn sketches, then you need to communicate the intricacy you’re expecting beforehand. The exterior finish will define the outer aesthetic of your home and hence is the MVP!

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Dwell

MARCH 23, 2022

A swath of solid, weather-resistant eucalyptus is finished in warm auburn to highlight the wood’s earthy hue, its slatted surface lending an airy texture ideal for alfresco settings. She brought the clean, airy lines of modern furniture into a durable coffee table made from powder-coated aluminum finished in your choice of black or white.

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Dwell

MAY 22, 2024

A new book rounds up hundreds of unbuilt structures and city plans from the 20th century to today that show just how different our world could have looked. Williams, plus all sorts of other terrazzo finishes and indoor greenery. A sketch of architect Paul Rudolph’s planned Sino Tower in Hong Kong, designed in 1989.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 12, 2022

These cheerful pups look like they were sketched for a 1960s-edition of The New Yorker. Let someone else do (most of) the work for you The Met Holiday Gift Wrap & Tags Book Wrap your gifts in Museum-inspired style with designs from this cheerful, only–at–The-Met wrapping paper book. 1,58 inch width.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 6, 2022

I tend to derive my designs from when I see something that I really love, or that just raises a flag for me when I'm going through books and doing research. "I I just sketch the silhouette and move on. They wanted them in raw format, they didn't need them finished or anything they just needed them quickly.

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Habitus Living

MARCH 28, 2023

Can you share some of your process – how you translate concepts into a finished piece? Contrary to what people assume, I don’t sketch or design any of my ideas. Last but not least is Wed Clay, which is a water-based clay that starts off soft and hardens to a stone like finish when it dries out.

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DesignScape Architects

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

A sketch, below, from about 1830, shows a view up Waterkant Street, and there is our building in plain sight, its top three window openings signposting its presence. And to showcase our small but growing, and precious, library of architectural books. So a slightly cheeky offer found us being the owners of our own sanctum.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 15, 2014

I decided to put something together super quick on this topic simply because I had to have this conversation on site the other day and I realized there were 4 grown men standing around using their hands trying to describe the difference between book matched and slip matched wood flitches. Don’t know what a flitch is?

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Architizer

JANUARY 28, 2022

Utilizing design colors, materials, finishes, furniture, environmental graphics and more, interior designers focus on experience. and The New Bohemians book series. London’s The Gallery at Sketch, Courtesy Rob Whitrow. India Mahdavi. Paris, France | Founded 1999. India Mahdavi is an Iranian-French designer.

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Habitus Living

MARCH 17, 2024

Once I turned 17, I finished school and left home for university, then Gold Coast, Sydney then New York and LA for a few years – dotted with plenty of travel in between. It could be a vase, or a light fitting from right then and there the story starts to unfold and I’ll usually start sketching or reaching for my colour book.

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Habitus Living

MARCH 17, 2024

Once I turned 17, I finished school and left home for university, then Gold Coast, Sydney then New York and LA for a few years – dotted with plenty of travel in between. It could be a vase, or a light fitting from right then and there the story starts to unfold and I’ll usually start sketching or reaching for my colour book.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Niche is produced from black melamine and has a smooth, matte finish that makes the pieces pleasing to the touch and easy on the eye. The creative and funny book is a great gift to help try to explain to younger kids why you are wailing at a computer screen full of colored lines again.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Patrice Gruner: A book with a world map inspired me to sketch up the concept for the client. How have your clients responded to the finished project? Architizer chatted with Patrice Gruner, Founder & CEO at GRUNER&FRIENDS , to learn more about this project. Architizer: What inspired the initial concept for your design?

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Habitus Living

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Also at Material Matters 2022 was British designer Benjamin Hubert , founder of LAYER , who was celebrating the launch of a new book published by Phaidon and written by design curator Max Fraser with the Monograph exhibition. Inky Dhow Universe by Bethan Gray at Sketch. Monograph by LAYER. Huguet x Pentagram.

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Shades of Grey

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

They made me think of Gordon Cullen and his Townscape sketches /manifesto. Struggling with the heat and other factors, so I chose a morning walk from Trocadero, taking in Rue Benjamin Franklin and crossing the river by the Bir Hakeim bridge to finish with a vegetarian crepe and cappuccino, before returning for a bit of a midday nap.

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 26, 2022

(Pinterest/from his latest book). A book unexpected and unannounced arrived on my doorstep today: Robert A.M. The new book, just out, is, however, the biography of architecture’s own Zelig – he has always been around and pops up everywhere. Sorry, I could not resist.)

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Architects Tales

AUGUST 28, 2019

Dr. Seuss, author of children’s books. 20: Sketch, sketch! If you cannot find anything else to sketch, sketch your boots! But when I’m finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know its wrong. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

This is exactly the sort of thing that adds that ever-so-important finishing touch that will take your margaritas from ordinary to extraordinary … and isn’t that exactly what it means to be an architect? I personally feel that the really nice ones can be a little intimidating to sketch in – they seem a little precious to me.

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Architizer

AUGUST 2, 2022

How have your clients responded to the finished project? We are very excited to announce that Fort 137 is the subject of a new book – the latest in the Masterpiece Series by publisher Oscar Riera Ojeda. The entire family really loves the design.

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Historic LDS Architecture

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

They decided to make the design much larger, with one frieze for each dispensation: The Old Testament, the New Testament, the Book of Mormon, and the Latter-day Dispensation. These are a series of lunettes, seven in total, each depicting different principles and ordinances of the gospel, as depicted in the Bible or Book of Mormon.

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30X40 Design Workshop

JULY 11, 2022

I’m always glad to have a visual reminder of everything behind a wall finish - blocking, plumbing, gas lines - once it’s covered up. Most often I’m carrying heavy material samples, reference books or catalogs to and from the job site. They’ve even thought of details like a closure hook to keep larger items contained.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 11, 2018

In one part of the tour, these sorts of construction drawings are put up on the wall as a sort of wallpaper and I couldn’t wait ( for the first time ever ) to get to the gift shop at the end of the tour, only to be disappointed that almost nothing of what I wanted to see was included in any of the books made available.

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