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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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. I spent hours at that board sketching all the hopes and dreams of my future; muscle cars, fast boats and contemporary houses.

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Design Thoughts Architects

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Classical Villa Construction in Bangalore. Construction of this classical luxury villa is now taking place in Bangalore. Excavation Marking: Determining the amount of soil existing and removing undesirable bushes, weeds, and plants are the first and most crucial steps in the excavation process for this classical villa Construction.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Initially invented in the 1980s, BIM is an all-in-one software package that includes features from digital representation to architectural visualization, data-driven design, construction documentation, and more. It has a simple and straightforward interface, which allows architects to effortlessly turn a sketch into a fully realized design.

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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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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

APRIL 2, 2024

It is installed on a full-scale sketch floor plan Prouvé first exhibited a prototype of the Maison Les Jours Meilleurs on Quai Alexandre-III in February 1956. This was described by fellow architect Le Corbusier as "the handsomest house I know of, the most perfect object for living in, the most sparkling thing ever constructed".

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

By conforming to mediocre construction standards and allowing the tools of the digital age to limit the range of what is possible, the industry has created an environment where what is designed is seldom what is built.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

El Corazon is the result of a team effort, the evolution of a concept, from a very basic sketch to a first class restaurant. From the first approach and first sketches, keeping the essence and vibe of town was in our team scope. Were any parts of the project dramatically altered from conception to construction, and if so, why?

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30X40 Design Workshop

OCTOBER 18, 2020

In the video below you’ll see the drawings I prepare for the early stages of construction, learn how I choose an appropriate foundation system and join me for a typical site visit as I review progress. This is one of many reason I visit the site regularly to review + resolve the questions that invariably arise during construction.

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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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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

Architects can also upload their own image, for example an initial sketch or render, and modify it through additional prompts. One example is architect Hamza Shaikh , who used his hand sketches and AI to create “Kinonic” (kinetic and sonic) drawings to express concept and narrative more effectively.

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Lines on Paper

MARCH 6, 2022

thinking about possible screens for an old shophouse Sketches in an A3 sketchbook bought from IKEA (I think it is for children to draw in with crayons) - there are many pages, they are quite thin but it takes fountain pen ink well. Sketching freely helps me to explore more.

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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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Architizer

AUGUST 2, 2022

Were any parts of the project dramatically altered from conception to construction, and if so, why? We take a lot of pride in the rigor of our design process and in the level of detail in our construction documents. We also owe a lot of credit to the construction team, Forté Specialty Contractors. © Daniel Joseph Chenin.

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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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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

Sketch Design Studio has completed a rural residence in north India that combines a highly ordered facade with a rustic stone interior. Located near the Aravalli mountains in Rajasthan, the two-storey Stone House is built from stone blocks sourced from local demolition sites. The photography is by Purnesh Dev, with styling by Rahul Kukreja.

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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. Zaha Hadid Architects used paintings to explore concepts that could not be shown through conventional perspective drawings.

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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.

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Dwell

MARCH 12, 2024

But in the decades since it was constructed, the prototype house has had a rough run, facing multiple relocations and periods of disrepair. An exterior sketch of the Aluminaire House by Kocher and Frey in 1931. The design was later included in the seminal book The International Style: Architecture Since 1922.) Rockefeller Jr.

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The Spaces

MARCH 30, 2022

It’s part of Balenciaga’s Raw Architecture concept, which sees retail spaces stripped back to the extreme, designed to be closer to construction sites and abandoned spaces. London’s sketch says goodbye to pink with new interiors by India Mahdavi and Yinka Shonibare. There’s even artificial dirt scattered beneath the shelving.

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Lines on Paper

JANUARY 16, 2023

Met Eric, his partner Slyvester, his welder Raymond and his QS Roger to discuss construction details for the hotel. The minutes are taken as a series of sketches. 1215pm Lunch with Vivian, to discuss how to leave, whether to leave and what her parents thought of the situation. I have known her since her college days, 18 years old.

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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

JUNE 20, 2023

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. A new logo has also been created by illustrator Peter Horridge based on a sketch by the gallery's first director George Scharf's sketch from 1893.

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Community Architect Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

An observer was left with the nagging impression that sketches and explanations were offered to justify a design that had already been completed and couldn't be altered and that some of those images may have even been produced for this meeting and not as part of the design evolution. Will it have intimacy and feel welcome.

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A4 Architects

JANUARY 30, 2024

This work included interviewing the client to better understand the program of the project, which are the functional requirements of the new construction, the size and orientation of the various component parts, the aesthetic goals, the scheduling requirements, and the approximate budget that is available to design and build the project.

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Bustler

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Event Date: Jan 21, 2024 - Dec 31, 2024; Event City: Washington, DC, US Building Stories will bring kids and adults alike on an immersive exploration of the world of architecture, engineering, construction, and design found in the pages of children’s books.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 16, 2022

A sketch of the Saudi Arabian coastal park shows the density of programming flowing across drawing types. Landworks worked through design development phases, with construction documentation done locally, following Saudi development norms. Sketches figure as a deep mode of practice and communications for Landworks. Varutti says.

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Architizer

JUNE 30, 2022

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. After the vines were sketched on the miniature, the designers converted them into vector files.

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Architecture Lab

APRIL 13, 2022

While most people hire architects, some are tempted to sketch plans themselves. Surely, you will save a lot of money, but find yourself in a bind during the construction. From planning to executing, there’s a lot on a homeowner’s plate while designing a home. Fortunately, […].

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 25, 2022

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. After the vines were sketched on the miniature, the designers converted them into vector files.

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Bustler

JANUARY 9, 2024

The exhibition is an immersive exploration into seemingly complex topics of the world of architecture, engineering, construction, and design through hands-on activities, media installations, sketching, reading, and an opportunity for visitors to build stories of their own.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Also included is a "hypothetical city" created via a combination of hand sketches and AI, and a project that explores the concept of chainmail. In the second semester, students participate in design studio activities, including digital fabrication, robotic construction systems, and the simulation and optimisation of materials.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Sketchbooks: Collected Measured Drawings and Architectural Sketches by George Saumarez Smith Triglyph Books , October 2021 Hardcover | 10 x 12-1/2 inches | 240 pages | English | ISBN: 9781916355439 | $55.00 The drawings display a supreme mastery that goes beyond technique and assumes the status of art.

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