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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Architizer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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. When I walked the site for the first time, I cried imagining the history of the Jardin de Climitation.

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SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 14, 2024

For example, architects will exhaustively study the subject site, investigating its history, topography, regulatory framework, and cultural context. The process of design involves brainstorming, sketching, and experimenting with different ideas. Defining the problem often involves extensive research.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Vectorworks Best BIM Tool for Concept Design Vectorworks is perhaps the most versatile BIM software for architecture. It has a simple and straightforward interface, which allows architects to effortlessly turn a sketch into a fully realized design. It seamlessly bridges the gap between pen, paper and BIM.

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Community Architect Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

To be fair, in the initial review UDAAP didn't so much criticize the design as the lack of a process that showed how the team arrived at the design and the absence of submittals required during the concept plan review. These framework sketches are illustrative of a mental construct that guides the later design.

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Architizer

JANUARY 23, 2024

Ideation and concept design, for example, vary significantly compared to drawing technical details or conducting site analysis. Stable Diffusion also has the ability to animate a concept through prompts, offering a more immersive spatial experience. Nevertheless, their applications are not limited to text-based imagery.

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Deezen

MAY 18, 2023

On display are sketches, drawings and models of the architect's buildings Curated by Centre Pompidou deputy director Frédéric Migayrou, the exhibition aims to showcase examples of Foster's innovation and technology, his approach to sustainability and his ideas for the future of the built environment.

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30X40 Design Workshop

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

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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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Home / Heard around the architectural studio / heard around the architectural studio #010 I can’t find any sketch paper. It is a sketching paper but most importantly, it’s a tracing or better term, refining paper that allows you to work something out by layering tracing paper over it. What do you need it for?

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Architizer

MAY 17, 2023

With a growing number of industry leaders advocating — with good reason — for students and young architects to receive more real-world construction experience , you could be forgiven for thinking that conceptual projects are a distraction, getting in the way of the invaluable education awaiting designers on the building site.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Covid-19 pandemic, which normalized concepts such as cross-world, virtual-based collaborations, the resurfacing of the digital platform “Metaverse” following Facebook’s rebranding to Meta in late 2021, and, finally, the rapid growth and popularity of AI technology. Explore the complete library of categories here. Learn more.

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Dwell

JUNE 16, 2022

Gesner’s hands-on, observational approach was a constant throughout his career—he would spend endless hours on-site studying the wind, land, sun, and surroundings, developing a deep affinity for nature that lies at the heart of his work. Harry Gesner designed the famous Wave House in Malibu in 1957.

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Architizer

MAY 16, 2023

With a growing number of industry leaders advocating — with good reason — for students and young architects to receive more real-world construction experience , you could be forgiven for thinking that conceptual projects are a distraction, getting in the way of the invaluable education awaiting designers on the building site.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Instead of spending numerous hours sketching, drawing and model making, “creative” AI apps can generate countless concepts in a matter of seconds by simply feeding them client briefs. Nevertheless, while they seem ideal for producing impressive concepts for early stage design, the images they create are fairly fictional.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

SCHULER A concept plan sketch of the Cosmic Saltillo site in East Austin, Texas. Old concrete slabs were jackhammered out of the buildings and stored on-site until they could be reused. In the landscape for a new taqueria, Ten Eyck Landscape Architects preserves a slice of Austin’s history. BY TIMOTHY A.

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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. Its typology refers to the historical building’s various heights and anchors the project to the site’s structure and qualities, while at the same time considering the human scale.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The main structure is the 1970s-built Les Damiers, a huge brutalist estate in Paris' La Défense, which appears to have been transplanted onto a site in southeast London. Jon was right beside me from the start, developing sketches and concepts," added Tavares. "He

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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.

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Shades of Grey

OCTOBER 8, 2023

The site was on the crest of a hill just outside Harare, with the most stupendous view. My boss, Mike Clinton would draw enigmatic concept sketches on little squares of paper the size of sticky notes and leave it to us to make them work. I attended site meetings while the concrete frame went up, but not much beyond that.

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Bustler

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The competition timeline is as follows: Concept delivery: March 4, 2023 Masterplan and schematic submission: March 15, 2023 Winner announcement: March 29, 2023 Designers are required to deliver the following materials: A 3-5 page concept document outlining the design intent and approach.

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Architizer

JUNE 15, 2022

Spaces version 2 comes complete with improved editing tools, increased 2D viewing options, new sun studies, new sketching capabilities and additional workflow integration options. The sketchbook encompasses new technologies, such as the Apple pencil, and allows designers to test their ideas out by sketching and note-taking.

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Shades of Grey

MARCH 25, 2024

We were just doing concept design after concept design while Zimbabwe's economy declined in the early 2000s. Sometimes I would do 3d faces in Autocad for the building masses, simple linework for the site and parking, then import this into Sketchup to generate views. We had given up on A1 sheets for concept work.

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A4 Architects

JANUARY 30, 2024

This includes the selection of the architect and a feasibility study analysis of the site. Proposed Site Plan (555 Ocean Ave, Newport, RI) If there is an existing building, even if that building is to be demolished, a careful survey of the structure is generally undertaken.

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Bustler

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Site Introduction: In the captivating landscape of GuangShan's Longshan Lake National Wetland Park, the vision for Flight Camp as the cornerstone of the country's first child-friendly B&B cluster is set to redefine the concept of rural accommodations. Additionally, submit sketches, work photos, and other relevant process materials.

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Architizer

APRIL 16, 2022

The “ Landscape of Traces ” design concept envisions past transformations on the site as historical imprints or urban traces to be revealed to the public. Archaeological reconstruction is meaningless and impossible as part or most historical remains had already been permanently dug up to make way for train tunnels under the site.

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Architizer

MAY 10, 2023

Manual methods, such as sketching or building paper models, force a designer to make decisions in a highly conscious manner, encouraging a more deliberate, considered approach to architectural design that is hard to replicate through technology. Hand drawings and physical models are valuable in their own right.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

All the drawings are done by a landscape architect, visualizing deep concepts in clear and simple ways.” Copic Sketch Markers (sets or individual) 6-piece set from $24, 12-piece set from $66, 72-piece set $300+. “I Copic Sketch Marker wallet $22–$44. Morpholio Trace Sketch $99. Concepts Sketching Pricing varies.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 16, 2022

The East Dareen Beach Neighborhood Park site in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, is a serious place: Bounded by a missile silo to the north, its double shore of coast and island form results from a dredge-ravaged coastline—and it is a major part of the city’s treated sewage effluent (TSE) program. By Jessica Bridger. Image courtesy Michael Blier, FASLA.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 3, 2023

10 Design (part of Egis Group) has successfully converted a former warehouse site into a retail-gastronomy destination, marking an important milestone for the ongoing transformation of the Sungang industrial area.

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Shades of Grey

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

A snapshot from my pocket notebook from a time when I was struggling with the physical demands of manual labour on building sites, but determined to reject the world of corporate architecture that I had glimpsed as an undergraduate. These sketches must be from 1970. Letraset, rotring stencil and a small freehand sketch.

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Habitus Living

MARCH 19, 2024

Brackish space at all scales Aunty’s House is a medium-density housing concept that uses the broad definition of ‘family’ in Aboriginal communities to rethink spatial planning. While private spaces have a place, the obsession with privacy at all costs is challenged. Craig Kerslake. Lynne Hancock.

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Habitus Living

AUGUST 1, 2023

Moreover, with clients active in the design process, the relationship was built around extensive conversations, sketches, materials and plan developments between Richards Stanisich and the client: “Armidale Residence has been one of our most memorable projects to date. Futureproofing the home was integral to the build.

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aasarchitecture

MARCH 29, 2022

10 Design (part of Egis Group) has revealed the concept design for Hon Thom Island, an iconic integrated resort and hospitality destination along the vibrant Bai Trao Beach in Phu Quoc, Vietnam. Image ©10 Design. Image ©10 Design. Image ©10 Design. Image ©10 Design. Image ©10 Design. Image ©10 Design.

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DesignScape Architects

JUNE 22, 2021

The precedent was a small Lapa structure that one of our guys had done for the King Shaka Airport site team, which was built by unsophisticated builders. We wanted to do stone walls or Gabions as there were plenty of stones on site. Add to that a simple 3D sketch, a hand sketched plan, and the basic concept was approved.

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DesignScape Architects

JUNE 28, 2021

The site is level with an oak tree, with mountains to the North, a berm to the West and a river to the East. The client requested that the design should be a hybrid of an existing house in Churchaven, also owned by them, but adjusted as a response to the particular context of this site. Only the pool survived.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 22, 2014

Home / Blog / #ArchiSketch #ArchiSketch Bob Borson — June 23, 2014 — 22 Comments As an architect, I tend to communicate through sketching – which is starting to make me a bit of a relic. The rest of my afternoon is starting to look up – all that’s missing is a beer Hashtags used: #sketching.

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Shades of Grey

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I was responsible for this small building from concept design to completion, and my toolkit was the Sketchup and Autocad I brought along on my laptop, along with Photoshop. This time I was inheriting a concept design and developing it into a tender package. Seems like yesterday. Seems like a lifetime ago.

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