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Sketch Design Studio reinterprets south Indian traditions for Rajasthan house

Deezen

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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Architectural Sketches – Sketchapalooza II

Life of an Architect

Truthfully, I don’t really care which one you prefer, although I have a strong preference for hand sketching and feel that I could successfully argue that unless you are a sole practitioner, there is considerably more upside to pulling out your trace paper and rolling up your sleeves. Which meant pulling the trace paper back out.

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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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Fondation Louis Vuitton: Frank Gehry Reflects on the Making of an Architectural Icon in Paris

Architizer

Completed in 2014, Gehry’s landmark building is undoubtedly an architectural icon, but manages to retain a reference for both its site in the heart of Paris’s beloved park and for the city as a whole. Frank Gehry: I’m very pleased with the building. It was a dream to build a building in that location.

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Building a 30-Minute Study Model

30X40 Design Workshop

The digital tools of architecture practice are always changing, but I think most architects will tell you that analog tools - sketching and model making - are an unchanged part of their design process. The sketch is purposefully open-ended and left open to multiple readings. Concept Sketch. Click to Watch the Full Video.

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Using Our Sketching Skills To Persuade and Convince

EntreArchitect

Sketching The Hopes and Dreams of My Future. Up to that point in my life my only experience with actual construction was observing my father and his friends build a new family room for our house when I was 7. So, in reality I convinced Dad and his friends to actually build me the new room and I would help the best I could.

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GREY AREAS

Shades of Grey

I saved a bunch of snapshots and then decided to do rapid sketch overs. Just trying to get a feel and resurface my memories to a level where they can mingle with other experiences of "the way we build" in different places, eras, climates, whatever. Partly aimed at developing my sketching skills on the Microsoft Surface by the way.