Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Let’s get a bit more specific on what schematic design actually means – t he architect prepares a series of rough sketches which show the general arrangement of rooms and of the site. This is a pile of sketch paper from the time I was working through the layout of our new office.

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Architizer

JUNE 28, 2023

In the crowded market of modern residential architecture, captivating visualizations are essential to powerfully convey an initial concept and convince clients of your vision. Highlight the seamless integration of glass, steel, and concrete in this modern masterpiece. Set your professional camera to manual mode, f/5.6, –v 5.1

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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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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Home / Architects / Architectural Sketches Architectural Sketches Bob Borson — September 26, 2013 — 22 Comments Architects sketch as part of the process when doing their job … at least I do. This is a sketch from project that I am currently working on – the KHouse Modern.

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Architizer

JULY 10, 2023

While not intended as fully resolved layouts, these sketch plans can form a starting point for exploring different styles of architectural representation or be added to a collection to form a mood board at the early stages of the design process. Use different line weights to create a hierarchy between elements within the drawing. –v 5.2

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Habitus Living

MARCH 3, 2024

The house is a modern residential home that honours the Jazz Age, adorned with Art Deco features such as geometric lines and eclectic materials. The design brief evolved throughout the iterative process, through conversation and sketching. Conceived by Kerry Phelan of K.P.D.O

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Deezen

OCTOBER 14, 2022

More than 300 photographs, plans and sketches fill the 21st Century Houses book , published by RIBA Books , to bring readers inside the "best of the best" of modern British homes. This engaging belvedere feels like a bird-hide with open views in every direction but includes all of the comforts of modern living.".

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Architizer

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The contrast between both worlds produces a surprising place, a synthetic hybrid landscape, between the natural and the artificial where industrial materials are intermingled with those from the agricultural world. © Tomás García Píriz Studio. © Tomás García Píriz Studio. © Tomás García Píriz Studio. © Tomás García Píriz Studio.

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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 tradition of building using these orders was maintained well into the 20th century, until modernism began to dominate architecture. Mark’s Square and San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice and Inigo Jones’ St.

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30X40 Design Workshop

MAY 13, 2024

This is a deep, diverse well of material to study + learn from. Its searchable archives (unlike many online museum sites) easily lead you to some wonderfully detailed and rich architectural drawings, sketches and even architectural models by some of the masters. 20 pages of each issue.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2016

When you pull up in front of a house, did you know that you can determine if the house is modern even before look up? If the sidewalk is in a continuous pour from the street to the front door, someone didn’t get the Bob Borson memo on modern sidewalks. I sketched up a detail to show you better what I am describing.

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The Spaces

AUGUST 22, 2022

The LA-based firm bought the dilapidated Gordon & Hildred Goetschel House in October 2021 for $1.33m, according to the Pasadena Star-News, and used Kappe’s original drawings, sketches and archive materials from the Getty Research Institute to mastermind its rehabilitation of the Verdugo Woodlands building.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Architectural concept sketches, construction details, construction photos … these are the sorts of posts that are both my most favorite, and least favorite, to put together. The drawing above was my original concept sketch from June 2015 – pretty simple and direct … and a little unrealistic.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 16, 2018

There is something about a clean and simple wood “screen” that is suspended off the face of the wall that is at the same time both modern and refreshing. sketch by Michael Malone] It all starts with an idea of how to articulate a concept. sketch by Michael Malone] It all starts with an idea of how to articulate a concept.

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Image © Aedas Blending design elements from the traditional crafting with the desire to create a new and unique space – a dialogue between traditional and modern art presents itself in the architecture. The resulting design establishes an interplay between light and the crown, creating a visually captivating experience.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Diva showcases clothing, accessories, film, music, portraiture, sketches and film Diva 24 June 2023 to 7 April 2024 The V&A Museum hosts the Diva exhibition, which explores the designs behind 'divas' and how the role has changed throughout time. The display collection was made utilising both traditional craft and modern technology.

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The Spaces

APRIL 11, 2023

Finding form Michael Leonard, ‘Trees on Charing Cross Road’ sketch, 1955. (c) Students were encouraged to keep daily sketchbooks, and Leonard found a huge source of material just outside the school’s gate, recording the ebb and flow of life on the street.

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Dwell

JANUARY 4, 2022

Architect Robert Swinburne deploys a collaborative building approach and hyperlocal materials to craft a Passive House–certified home that celebrates the land it’s built on. The home is made entirely with local materials, and much of the wood was harvested on-site. It was a sunny day in early winter, and a layer of snow had fallen.

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Jane Griswold Radocchia

MAY 3, 2024

In 1540 Sebastiano Serlio drew this sketch in Book IV of his On Architecture.* A complete English translation of Serlio's 5 Books on Architecture , including the sketch of the pediment's layout, was available in the UK about 1720. The Industrial Revolution brought new tools and materials. He wrote, ". 1545, Book IV, page xxviii.

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Shades of Grey

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Is there anything in our modern culture to hold a candle to this exuberance? Human beings have built for thousands of years, using different techniques and materials, for different purposes, adapting to different climates and cultural settings. Experimenting with digital sketching tools. Ancient but still functioning.

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Deezen

MAY 17, 2023

The collection also includes a number or other tables and seats The tube is also a form common to playgrounds, contrasted with the granite that points towards the materiality of public infrastructure. Playgrounds are an early exposure to modernism," the designer said. It's not just about race.

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The Spaces

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Sketch London. Bethan Gray at Sketch. The desperately swish restaurant and tearoom Sketch is nearly 20 years old but somehow manages to stay relevant with expensive design overhauls launched with much fanfare. Photography: London Design Festival. Read next: Inside the Africa Centre’s new central London headquarters.

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ArchiDiaries

APRIL 17, 2022

Excerpt: Poly-Hankou Mark is designed by a multi-disciplinary firm M-Design which amalgamates traditional Chinese culture and modern foreign culture as the connection of the whole space. . The designer uses the traditional Chinese culture and modern foreign culture as the connection of the whole space.

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Shades of Grey

DECEMBER 16, 2022

So it's taken me a year or so to build up the raw material for this recreation. Modern church and traditional mosque tell their stories well enough. Integrating my recent work on doors and railings to do a quick BIM sketch of a typical "shop house" in the old quarter of downtown Port Louis. Also the materials need some work.

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Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2023

"What we truly love about this building, and in almost all of Charles Correa's work, is his ability to use the principles of vernacular culture and architecture rooted deep in India and express it in a modern perspective.". Chosen by Gargi Thakur, architect at Sketch Design Studio. Photo courtesy of Earthitects.

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Portland Architecture

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A recent Seattle house was featured in a New York Times article called " A Modern Home That Looks Toward the Sky and the Water." My grandfather was an engineer as well, who taught me how to sketch and draft with a t square in his workshop, and when I saw what was possible with the Wright book, I was hooked.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This book profiles the "best of the best" modern British homes, from House on the Hill by Alison Brooks to ACME's shingle-covered Bumpers Oast residence (pictured top and above), which is modelled on traditional Kentish hop-drying kilns. Rocky Mountain Modern by John Gendall. Find out more about Rocky Mountain Modern ›.

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Deezen

JUNE 8, 2022

It's a very modern, clean white box that has been excavated out and kind of sliced through these multiple layers.". Divided Layers draws on the "stacking and marrying" construction process that was used to make the original sink, and was also informed by a drawing Arsham sketched over 10 years ago, according to the designer.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Simba Vision Montessori School crowned architecture project of the year Simba Vision Montessori School by Architectural Pioneering Consultants won architecture project of the year, sponsored by Material Bank. The master jury commended the contemporary use of materials and forms sensitive to the building's heritage.

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ArchiDiaries

MAY 7, 2022

During a study tour to Auroville, India, Senthil had an eventful encounter with a sketch which eventually led him to his Mentor, Architect Dominic Dube. Play Architecture is an all-inclusive, research-based design firm emerging from the strong roots of modernism and constantly testing various architectural ‘iisms’ since 2005.

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Dwell

MARCH 23, 2022

Pottery Barn Beale FSC Eucalyptus Rectangular Coffee Table With its modern silhouette rendered in a rich, natural material, our coffee table creates a stylish centerpiece in your outdoor space. Beale’s organic sensibility is beautifully balanced by its sleek, iron base and pairs perfectly with the coordinating end table. Made in U.S.A.

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 22, 2016

Everyone knows the correct answer is the egg … and by “egg” I mean “floor plans” I posted a sketch last week of an elevation study and was asked a simple question: do I design the floor plans first, or the elevations? Which came first – the chicken or the egg? Do you see it?

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Home / My Work / KHouse Modern Progress Update 05 KHouse Modern Progress Update 05 Bob Borson — February 3, 2014 — 25 Comments It’s been a long time since I have provided an update on the KHouse Modern so I thought I wold take this Superbowl Sunday and put together a post that brings you up to speed.

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Shades of Grey

JULY 30, 2021

Freehand sketching and painting on stretched canvas are physical activities that I have always enjoyed. I became fascinated with the different materials and methods that had evolved in different times and places. I am trying to find balance in my life which for many years has leaned heavily towards the digital sphere.

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Community Architect

DECEMBER 30, 2021

As a step towards the schematic design refinements, my boss had prepared 6' long pencil-drawn and marker-colored large-scale wall sections on narrow sketch paper strips that showed how everything should fit together. Such sketches are what I recommend my students to prepare if they want to test if they really understand their own design.

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Habitus Living

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Material Matters 2022. Materiality is a major part of the design world – and one that is perhaps overlooked at design fairs. Based on the award-winning Material Matters podcast by design writer Grant Gibson, the inaugural Material Matters 2022 fair shines a spotlight on makers who are redefining our understanding of materiality.

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