Lines on Paper

JANUARY 19, 2023

She was quite tickled by the experience I think thought experience tells me that she has a ways to go yet, much of the present work was not her own and she had plenty of help (mine included). She was asked to re-do the sketch up based on the current cad and refresh her skp skills. I got her to think about 'what's next?'.

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The Spaces

MAY 12, 2022

‘They said, “A friend of mine has been working on this church in London, but they haven’t gotten very far as there’s not enough funding but they might be interested [in hosting your show].” ” It was really natural; one thing led to another.’ ‘That’s what I needed at this stage.

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Shades of Grey

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Pixlr and Sketchbook have been favourites of mine for long enough. Rapid application of effects (in this case to dumb down the detail and focus my attention on the massing of the composition) … then sketching over with layers and transparency. I used two apps on my phone to develop my approach.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Number 1 [drum roll please …………… ] Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me April 7, 2014 Ever wished your sketches looked like mine? I didn’t think so but that didn’t stop me from sharing the tips and techniques I use to get my sketches to look the way they do.

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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

JUNE 20, 2022

Barnsley was a coal mining town. I'm doing rapid sketching here. So I will continue to find old photos and drawings of my own, images from the web, hand sketches that I create “on the spot” and my Revit model of Barnsley to link it all together. Can I model these kinds of throwback details at some point? More to come.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 6, 2019

It started when a client of mine had a pair and he had us over to his house to experience walking through the building we had designed for him. Sketching on your tablet can be done by several applications. My favorites in this category are Arrette Scale or Arrette Sketch , Archisketch and Tayasui Sketches.

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Dwell

AUGUST 23, 2023

By then, many early attractions were already gone: the Phantom Boats, Rainbow Caverns Mine Train, the Flying Saucers, Space Station X-1, Rocket to the Moon, and so many others. A sketch for the Monsanto House of the Future. The fact is, I didn’t visit Disneyland until its 25th anniversary in 1980.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

LAMY Safari White fountain pen with Broad nib , Noodler’s bulletproof black ink – for sketching, doodling, drawing 13. Koh-I-Nor Drawing Pencils – H, 2B, 4B, 6B for sketching, figure drawing 15. Miquelrius black plain sketchbook – my primary sketchbook, mostly sketches and journalling, designing 17.

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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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30X40 Design Workshop

JULY 11, 2022

I made a little velcro-backed nameplate which I cut out of a scrap piece of zinc and mounted a custom sticker to for mine (see the video for details). If I’m traveling and unplugged, I tend to prefer analog sketching to digital and it serves as a travel diary. Solar Battery Bank - huge capacity (10 charges for iPhone, 3.6

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Life of an Architect

JULY 27, 2014

If your client comes from a builder referral as most of mine do, keep in mind a big intangible here is you want to make the builder look good and he/she is depending on you to do that. Waterfront house initial concept sketches. Waterfront house – more developed concept sketches.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 23, 2022

Over the course of the last three decades, Ostrava has transitioned from a coal-mining and metallurgical city to a service and information-driven industry requiring the urban landscape to transition and adapt to this new rapidly growing cultural economy. Source by CHYBIK + KRISTOF. A mix of Stories. ej Chybík, Michal Krištof, Martin K?ivánek,

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

I did not include some of the obvious things like my desk phone – every job has those things and I don’t use mine any differently than any other person. As a result, I sketch a lot. Either way, I would be lost without my trace paper and sketch pens. It’s only when I clean things up do I lose track of them.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2019

I’m currently in Chicago celebrating the 50th birthday of a good friend of mine. Primarily among these activities is that I like to sketch out my ideas rather than relegating it to a computer program. Cheers, ps – I mentioned at the start of this post that I was in Chicago celebrating the 50th birthday of a friend of mine.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Searching for success has always been a focus of mine. I look at my kids today and remember myself at that age spending hours and hours sketching scenes of what my life would one day become. Many of those pencil sketched dreamscapes remain pinned to those “gallery” walls today, yellow and stained with age.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Now half of the rolls in the office are smashed and it’s not as easy to know which roll of trace is mine whenever it goes missing. I can’t be bothered to mark the roll so I know … that’s not the point. They are ALL my rolls of trace.

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Portland Architecture

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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. Getting to watch the way offices were run by some heroes of mine has been important too.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 9, 2018

Sketching is a hot topic regardless of the people having the discussion, but I have learned over the last nine years of writing this site that sketching is one of the more hotly contested topics. A friend of mine gave me a handful of tips that made a fundamental change to how my sketches appeared.

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 24, 2023

Sketch of the quadrangle proposed for Johnson & Wales’ campus on Weybosset Street. Still, an old friend of mine visiting from our native Washington, D.C., His father and mine were both city planners. This was half a decade before I began to conceive of myself as an architecture critic.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

This model works for me considering I will probably use mine about 10-15x a year. x 10) – $15 I’m a big advocate of sketching, despite the fact that I am not particularly adept in my own sketching “style” I get a lot of Moleskine journals as gifts but the one I’ve listed above is my favorite.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 28, 2015

I actually found the sketch I made as part of my design process ( what did we do before Instagram ? Mine is the one on the left – but I probably didn’t have to tell you that, did I? Do I even need to tell you which one is mine? ( It has seriously become my online photo document/diary ).

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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. ParadigmGallery Bob The Builder was a favorite of mine so of course I really enjoy Bob The Architect…;-) You are a great teacher, drawings and images…fantastic!

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Even if she drew what I sketched, my colleague would have no understanding of it. In a smaller firm, you could look to Masterspec) Suddenly, my colleague’s eyes (and mine) were opened to a world of superior reference material, and we found the product and detail we needed. ” This was not helpful. ” Community of Practice.

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ArchiDiaries

JANUARY 10, 2022

There are about 3800 ghost towns in America due to westward expansion, mining and industrialization between 1880-1940 and about 50 well-planned abandoned ghost towns in China, followed by other countries with abandoned historic towns. Many also have mysterious associations and some stand in the hope to be colonized again. Eligibility.

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30X40 Design Workshop

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Just under the lid there are three mesh pouches, Yeti calls this the ‘pack attic’ which adds another layer of organization to the box for storing a tablet, a laptop and sketching tools. Essential Architecture Book List Design “Sketching is thinking,” as they say and initial concept development (for me) always happens in my sketchbook.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

One of the things having a web site like mine affords you is a peek behind the curtain – curtains in just about every nook and cranny of the planet. I loved playing with Lego’s as a child (variation 1b is “I used to sketch up house plans as a child.”) ”) 2.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 20, 2018

Post each new lesson learned in a journal or a sketch book. When I decided to grow this passion of mine beyond a personal blog and I dedicated it to you, it was a big goal for me. Set a goal to learn something new every day. Something small. And at the end of each day, before you go to bed, write it down. Make it a habit.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

I fell into the first category and used a few pictures that weren’t mine without accurately crediting the original source (a feat which is sometimes incredibly difficult to do) and I quoted others without referencing the original article in a footnote. In the case of my sketch, it was thousands.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 10, 2016

Simply based on my inbox, there is a new batch of bright and shiny new future architects about to graduate and they are on the hunt for their future … hopefully in an office like mine. That’s sounds like I think my office is the best place in the world to work. Why Should You Read This?

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Architects Tales

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Henry’s father had acquired a great deal of real estate in downtown Minneapolis while other branches of the family stayed with their investments in lumbering, mining and the 3M Corporation. 3] Ralph Rapson had a very natural, but well-practice skill, with the sketch pencil. Jonathan was Henry’s brainchild.

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Shades of Grey

MAY 16, 2021

This should be enough for me to get the proportions of my outline sketch roughly right. So I did the same on the canvas and sketched out the picture in pencil. It stimulates my hunger for understanding of the generations that preceded mine, going back to John Soane, Nicholas Hawksmoor, the craftsman who built Our Lady of Paris.

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e-architect

APRIL 5, 2023

It is the source of the region’s abundant mineral resources, and several major settlements were established along its length to engage in mining and forestry. One such settlement is the City of Rouyn-Noranda.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2023

Albert Kahn Associates mines original drawings for the restoration of the historic Ford House. An analysis of a seven-foot-long pool sectional drawing, sketched on linen, followed by concrete core sampling, revealed a green film on the water’s surface was not caused by deteriorating concrete as suspected. By Jeff Link.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I have 3 of these models in my own house and I have given two additional casts away as gifts to really good friends of mine. I personally feel that the really nice ones can be a little intimidating to sketch in – they seem a little precious to me. Moleskine Cahier Journal (Set of 3), Extra Large, Plain, Black, Soft Cover (7.5

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 14, 2015

The sketch above was the initial idea that I had – a “trophy” like, vertically oriented keepsake. Don’t kill me with comments about how bad my sketch lettering looks – I won’t be sending off sketches when the time comes to cut the lettering in to the steel.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 23, 2013

I even sketched the floor plan of my room at the bottom. ( i like sketching, i dont like dealing with paints etc. Your post reminded me to keep sending postcards home and to continue writing in my journal and sketching in my sketchbook, so thanks! Click this new image again and it will get even bigger.) i think i can draw well.

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