Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” October 26th, 2012 “This is what my office did for lunch” #beer and napkin #sketches. August 10th, 2013 “concept assembly sketch for a modern house I will feature on LoaA” #vegetativeroof. August 23rd, 2013 “and so it begins … #design #sketch #architect” #architecture.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2019

Primarily among these activities is that I like to sketch out my ideas rather than relegating it to a computer program. For me, I definitely went old school on this process … I did it by hand. For grins, I thought I would use the following example … laying out tile patterns.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 11, 2014

Since a number of people don’t seem to understand this concept, I thought I would whip together some sketches to help illustrate my point. Love the sketches too. link] Bob Borson I did the sketches on top of trace paper (like 90% of all my sketches) but I scanned these in and added some color in photoshop.

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Shades of Grey

JANUARY 27, 2024

Here I was using Autocad for detailed plans, Elevations and Sections, photoshop for applying colour, Archicad for quick 3d views, acrobat for compiling everything into design brochures to submit to the client. Definitely some aspects of "progress" have been very positive. So my hobby began with hand sketches and collected images.

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Sketching Photoshop Technology Technology 52

Architecture Quote

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

All in all, they’re an awesome way of letting images tell your story, of letting you showcase your work by presenting your project with good architecture photography, illustrations, project imagery with 3D visualization, plans and original sketches to spark the interest of the visitors. What is an architect portfolio? Nov, 6’th, 2020.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2017

Just remember that the first version of Photoshop 1.0 and I can promise you that when Danielle reads today’s post, she will admit that she already noticed this ) Include Something You Created by Hand This is definitely old school, but for me, I really want to see something that you did without using a computer.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

I still think sketch up is way easier, but just for 3d views. If I had staff, I would probably design in sketch up, and have “them” do the plans… too bad my staff can’t draw. It can definitely work with architecture though. It is less expensive than Revit, and the staff tech support is great.

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