Life of an Architect

AUGUST 12, 2019

The creative process for an architect is fairly simple for me - when I sketch, I think it slows my thought process down and forces me to think through my idea a bit more completely in my effort to actually be able to draw it out in a manner that allows someone else to understand what I am trying to convey.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Truthfully, I don’t really care which one you prefer, although I have a strong preference for hand sketching and feel that I could successfully argue that unless you are a sole practitioner, there is considerably more upside to pulling out your trace paper and rolling up your sleeves. Which meant pulling the trace paper back out.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 2, 2022

We are starting a design exercise called the "Modern Home Challenge" with the intent to go through a design process that would help us understand how to design a modern house that people could afford and would actually want to live in. The post EP 110: Modern Home Challenge first appeared on Life of an Architect.

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Architizer

MARCH 7, 2024

At some point in the school year, a student in my AP Literature class will ask the dreaded question: what is “Modernism?” Even though modern art seems “weird” to casual museum-goers, there was a method to the madness. Modern artists rejected representational conventions in pursuit of honest expression.

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Dwell

JUNE 16, 2022

He came up with the idea while sitting on a surfboard and observing the site from the ocean, drawing the original concept sketches directly on the surfboard with a grease pencil. Even though he never became an accredited architect, his life’s work earned him a better title: The Modern Maverick of Malibu.

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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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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

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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Archinect

AUGUST 26, 2022

A historically significant mid-century modern home designed by SCI-Arc founding director Ray Kappe has hit the market in Glendale, California, for an asking price of just under $2.2 At the end of the restoration, the home had appreciated in value by nearly seven figures over the original sale price of $1.33 million.

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Deezen

MAY 20, 2023

Studio Alessandro Mendini developed the Foglia table from one of his sketches The tables in the exhibition include a piece developed by Studio Alessandro Mendini from one of the late designer's sketches. The post Six designers reimagine traditional Korean mother-of-pearl craft for modern life appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

MAY 23, 2024

Yõso is a solid oak wood chair that combines elements of classic timber furniture design with modern refinement and a contemporary sense of detail. Yõso started with a lot of sketching, searching for different combinations and junctions," said Wilkinson.

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Habitus Living

APRIL 2, 2023

It was filled with hand-drawn sketches of cast iron valves and pipe fittings that featured decorative details. The picture of duality, Cromford can look equally at home in a modern farmhouse setting as an industrial warehouse. The range was inspired by an old plumbing catalogue I found dating back to the late 1800s.

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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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Deezen

MAY 29, 2024

Read: Tutto Bene references Streamline Moderne in tiny New York eyewear store "I initially drew the lamp during my travels in Japan last spring," Berchtold said. "It Tutto Bene recently created a Streamline Moderne-informed New York store for eyewear brand Cubitts. We developed the design together throughout the year."

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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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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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DesignScape Architects

JULY 22, 2020

Architectural Design Tools While architects of the past may have held their protractors, compasses and sharpened pencils dear to their hearts, the modern architect works with tools that are a little more cutting edge. Revit has many of the same qualities and advantages of ArchiCAD, and is used by our team in our Cape Town offices.

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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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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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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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Architizer

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Surprisingly, it is not common in all projects, the proposal has remained unchanged from the first sketches to its final execution. The post The Copera’s Garden, a Modern Oasis in an Industrial Landscape appeared first on Journal. Were any parts of the project dramatically altered from conception to construction, and if so, why?

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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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SW Oregon Architect

APRIL 2, 2023

Secondly, the Art Deco style is characterized by a unique combination of classic elegance and modernity. His website includes a shop from which you can purchase his photo collage prints, 4K smartphone wallpapers, NFTs, and sketches. Firstly, they are landmarks that often serve as symbols of a city’s identity and cultural heritage.

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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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Bustler

MAY 30, 2023

Through freehand sketches, Xu’s project explored the significance of “cultural aesthetics and forms in the creation of an interior in the community of Harlem.” Kansas State University graduate student Henry Hammes’s submission tackled the design of a modern workplace for Next Robotics.

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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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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. Steve finds that his evolution in residential architecture is more comfortable with a Texas vernacular, whether the project is modern or traditional. “I

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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.

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The Spaces

APRIL 11, 2023

Finding form Michael Leonard, ‘Trees on Charing Cross Road’ sketch, 1955. (c) Michael Leonard, ‘Roadworks at Gloucester Terrace’ sketch, 1955. (c) Denny’s work was a reaction against the St Ives School of landscape-based painting, taking inspiration from American films, popular culture and urban modernity.

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30X40 Design Workshop

MAY 13, 2024

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. Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK) Famous for its comprehensive collection of decorative arts and design.

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Architizer

JUNE 15, 2022

Spaces version 2 comes complete with improved editing tools, increased 2D viewing options, new sun studies, new sketching capabilities and additional workflow integration options. The app merges old-school drawing techniques with modern-day computing technologies into a user-friendly interface.

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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. Samuel Sloan, The Modern Architect , 1852, Plates XXVII and XXXV. He wrote, ". Norton & Co.,

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Deezen

APRIL 13, 2023

In 1963, the designer launched a range of mini skirts and dresses for her first boutique's lower-priced ready-to-wear range called Ginger Group, attracting young women who wanted more affordable modern clothing than what most designers were offering. She would draw the daisy whilst making her sketches in order to let her ideas flow.

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Shades of Grey

MARCH 25, 2024

One that sticks in my mind tells how he sweet-talked his way into Phillip Johnson's office in New York and built a lasting friendship with that fascinating shape-shifter who straddled the Modernist and Post-Modern eras. The picture in the background is a preliminary sketch for a larger picture.

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Shades of Grey

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Is there anything in our modern culture to hold a candle to this exuberance? Experimenting with digital sketching tools. How to get the spontaneity of hand sketching into the digital world and back again, seamlessly? And of course the water spouts and ponds, rectangular, stepping down in terraces. Ancient but still functioning.

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