Life of an Architect

APRIL 9, 2018

Architectural sketches typically fall into two distinctive camps (other than “Great!” ” or “terrible”) and the relative purpose of those sketches seem to reflect the time period with when the sketch was actually created … during design or during construction.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 3, 2023

With more than 30,000 architecture firms and over 130,000 projects within its database, Architizer is proud to host the world’s largest online community of architects. Launching your own firm profile and uploading projects is completely free. Click here to learn how to start uploading projects to Architizer. engaged followers.

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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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BD+C

JANUARY 15, 2024

How to keep airports functional during construction 0 qpurcell Mon, 01/15/2024 - 09:56 Airports Gensler's aviation experts share new ideas about how to make the airport construction process better moving forward. For a brief but productive window, airport construction turned into a completely different game.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Architizer’s Tech Directory is a database of tech tools for architects — from the latest generative design and AI to rendering and visualization , 3D modeling , project management and many more. It is a piece of technology that greatly encourages collaborative architectural practices, offering a holistic approach to design projects.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 30, 2017

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. Luckily, the “code police” cannot go back in time to penalize me as the project architect. I loved that room.

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Lines on Paper

JUNE 7, 2024

For some, it's not having to work so they can be home to do as they please, for others it's not stopping completely but selecting which projects they do. I tell her maybe it is doing selective parts of a large project (assuming that the office is still the 10 or so people, and need medium sized projects to sustain it).

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Architizer

APRIL 16, 2024

Each week, our brilliant team of writers, editors and architecture curators scroll through our directory, searching for inspiration for articles and selecting user-uploaded projects to be featured across our social media channels and in our Journal feature articles. How can you capture the complexity of the project as a whole?

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Life of an Architect

MAY 5, 2024

I can draft them, I can sketch them, I can get on a computer and use software like Revit (well, I can’t use Revit), AutoCAD, or whatever your drafting software of choice might be. Sketching, drafting, 3dmodeling, rendering, I've talked about all of it at one time or another but there are some particular moments that stand out for me.

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Deezen

JULY 29, 2023

Dezeen School Shows: a museum redevelopment project informed by the history of animation is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at London South Bank University. Year one design studio focuses on sketching, model-making, drawing, and site and building visits.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Project Status: Built. El Corazon is the result of a team effort, the evolution of a concept, from a very basic sketch to a first class restaurant. Architizer chatted with Mauricio Segura, Chief Executive Officer at CRN Architecture , to learn more about this project. What drove the selection of materials used in the project?

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2022

Dezeen School Shows: a photography project that explores feelings of nostalgia and a restaurant design that contrasts rustic and contemporary elements are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Kendall College of Art and Design. After drawing composition sketches, I do more research in preparation for detailed drawing. "I

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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. Second, the project must engage with an issue or need in the local community in which the project is based.

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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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aasarchitecture

AUGUST 4, 2022

MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, has completed its first built project “UNIC” in Europe. The living spaces are supported by a large podium on the ground floor, which is itself connected to an adjacent public housing project. Baiziwan Social Housing project is an extension of MAD’s vision of ideal living.

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Deezen

AUGUST 4, 2022

Focusing on the idea of perception and truth, the Invisible Cities Exhibition project aims to address how people's perceptions can be misleading to create false senses of reality. By defining and framing the feasible opportunities, James works through experimenting, sketching, testing and pushing the boundaries.

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DesignScape Architects

MARCH 12, 2021

In 2017, we were appointed as Lead Architect for the new Terminal 2 project. And, as passengers are kings, construction work can never interfere with their processing, whether in arrivals or departures. Accordingly we rerouted them across to the ground floor of Parkade 1 where a temporary Arrivals Hall will be constructed.

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Lines on Paper

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

While the most visible of this communication that we see is in the form of drawings and sketches, the majority of it is conducted via the written or the spoken word. The communication continues through the project; during the contract documentation, during construction - written in emails and faxes, on pieces of carboard and on drywall.

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Architizer

AUGUST 2, 2022

Project Status: Built. to learn more about this project. This idea of a stronghold in the desert gave birth to the project’s name and further inspired the design and materiality which pays homage to the historic forts, hand forged from site-sourced materials, that dotted the fringes of the Southwest frontier. Year: 2021.

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Deezen

MARCH 14, 2023

It was constructed by Wonder Workshop with the support of Ukrainian retail chain Silpo as a steel frame designed to resemble a pencil sketch. According to our plan, the installation should resemble a pencil sketch: as if someone, reminiscing, sketched their childhood home from memory," added the studio.

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Architizer

JANUARY 23, 2024

Architizer’s Tech Directory is a database of tech tools for architects — from the latest generative design and AI to rendering and visualization , 3D modeling , project management and many more. Architects can also upload their own image, for example an initial sketch or render, and modify it through additional prompts.

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30X40 Design Workshop

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Foundation + site work has begun on the island Outpost project and we quickly encountered an important decision after removing the overburden of soil at the building site. This is one of many reason I visit the site regularly to review + resolve the questions that invariably arise during construction. Sketching Tools + Gear.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 12, 2024

Charles Kene Okigbo, ASLA Custom Outdoor Pillows “It would be super cool to print student project images.” Dry Stone Walls: Fundamentals, Construction Guidelines, Significance by Swiss Environmental Action Foundation. Copic Sketch Markers (sets or individual) and Copic Sketch Marker wallet “I love these markers.

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Deezen

JUNE 7, 2022

In addition to learning core design and research skills, students work on live projects throughout the course. Students will develop their own signature style, experimenting across sketch work, 2D to 3D, knitwear and digital print in the workshops and dedicated fashion design studios. Boys in Blue by William Sousa. by Lydia James.

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A4 Architects

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you make a good choice on this step, you are well on your way to a successful project. This can establish “grandfathered” conditions that may apply to new project and impact planning and zoning calculations. The next phase is “Construction Documentation.”

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Deezen

JUNE 6, 2023

The lamp, for which numerous sketches and designs exist, represents a moment of rebirth in the post-war world." Rather than a mortar shell, the new version is constructed from black zinc and green-painted tracing paper and was made in collaboration with the Le Corbusier Foundation. The photography is courtesy of Nemo Lighting.

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Deezen

MAY 15, 2023

Zaha's Moonsoon: An Interior in Japan is a case study of architect Hadid 's first built project outside of the UK – the Moonsoon Bar and Restaurant in Sapporo, Japan, which was constructed in 1989. Japan provided opportunities for emerging architects to work on experimental projects.

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Deezen

JUNE 20, 2023

Never has there been a holistic transformation, and this project gave the opportunity to do that," Purcell chairperson Liz Smith told Dezeen on a tour of the building. The Ondaatje Hall was constructed in 1999 with a design by Dixon Jones Architects in the courtyard located between the building and the adjacent National Gallery.

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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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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

AUGUST 8, 2022

With intricate and lively sketches, he explains the classical orders of architecture that were created by Vitruvius around 100 AD. The book contains a large number of Terry’s drawings and sketches from travels, as well as linocuts. Also included are his drawings of such quintessential examples of the use of classical orders as St.

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Community Architect Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

UDAAP minutes of 11/16/23: How do the streets to the north intersect with the project? There is quite a bit of work left ahead for this project. UDAAP usually wants to see and participate in how a project evolves. And that includes the "character" of the project itself, says Osborne Anthony, a UDAAP member. "I

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Stephen B Chambers Architects

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Murakami's process is similar to an architect who works from sketches and overlays rather CAD drawings, until the total concept is achieved. Gradually, the concept becomes more certain and fixed in its environment and the drawings are laid out on CAD to be used for construction documents.

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30X40 Design Workshop

MAY 2, 2021

This is my process for solving real-world architectural problems, from sketching to updating the drawings and documents. As we’re in construction the restrictions are numerous: there are budgetary, esthetic, physical, legal, and functional considerations. Sketching Solutions. Idea becomes sketch. And now, we build!

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Deezen

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Read more about the "vanishing" energy savings from insulation › Image courtesy of the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund February – Saudi Arabia unveils giant cube-shaped supertall skyscraper for downtown Riyadh In February, the Saudi Arabian government announced yet another giga project.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 16, 2022

Jubail is a major industrial center; in fact, it is one of the largest industrial cities—and was once dubbed the largest civil engineering project—in the world, since its designation as a focus for Saudi industrial development in 1975. A sketch of the Saudi Arabian coastal park shows the density of programming flowing across drawing types.

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Aric Gitomer Architect

JUNE 23, 2022

If you have a preliminary brief ready, the residential architect will know what you are after so they can determine if they are the right fit for the project. In addition, you could also take a stroll around the neighborhood and look at newly constructed houses, if any. It could be a simple list of your requirements and ideas.

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Architizer

JUNE 30, 2022

Project Status: Built. After research, however, they found that the city’s old buildings, especially residential ones, didn’t have obvious local features, while public constructions representative of Wuhan were not reasonable choices for such an environment. Year: 2021. Text description provided by the architects.

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