Life of an Architect

MARCH 23, 2020

the point of today's post is that sketching is hard for most people and it's okay if you end up using other tools to help get you to your destination. As one of my college professors once told me, sketch until it hurts and then keep sketching. Continue reading Sketching is Hard at Life of an Architect.

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Deezen

AUGUST 7, 2023

The vernacular building techniques of north and south India combine in Hybrid House, a house with rammed-earth walls designed by Sketch Design Studio. Architecture office Sketch Design Studio designed and built the three-bedroom house in Alwar, a city located beside the Aravalli mountains in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan.

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designboom

MARCH 24, 2023

The post andrew bruno publishes ‘one house per day,’ a year-long series of sketches appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. one house per day' compiles a captivating series of 365 reimagined domestic spaces.

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Architizer

MAY 1, 2023

Sketching is a thinking tool that reflects one’s knowledge and emotional interpretation. The outcome of sketches is not necessarily a final product but a representation of ourselves engaging in a process, who we are, and how we think: I sketch, therefore I am. City skyline sketch. Synagogue sketches
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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 21, 2022

Daniel Winterbottom, FASLA, sketching outdoors. He calls urban sketching a public act, one of vulnerability and frustration balanced with unique opportunities for dialogue, discovery, and fulfillment. Observation and contemplation of the phenomena and nuances of a scene are critical skills honed specifically through field sketching.

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2023

Illustrator Peter Horridge has created a logo for The National Portrait Gallery in London based on a sketch by the gallery's first director. The logo (right) is based on an 1893 sketch by the gallery's first director (left) The bespoke logotype, which was hand-drawn by Horridge, features the entwined NPG initials of the gallery.

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Shades of Grey

AUGUST 6, 2023

This Caricature is from 1974, sketched in my little pocket notebook from memory. How I wish I could sketch like that now. I was trying to capture characters from a few months earlier, aware that my life was moving on. Shortly after that I started on the road to bricklaying via government retraining courses.

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The Spaces

MARCH 7, 2022

When it comes to dining experiences, London ’s sketch set the bar high when it debuted in 2002 with iconic pink interiors by India Mahdavi, replete with egg-shaped bathroom pods and wry artworks by David Shrigley. Picasso was interested in appropriating from another culture, and I also appropriated from European ethnic art.

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Architizer

JULY 7, 2023

Dubbed “the Midjourney for Architecture” by Dezeen , LookX is a software program that can take a wide variety of inputs — anything from a detailed sketch to a group of squiggly lines — and instantly transform them into high-end architectural renderings. The late Dame Zaha Hadid was well-known for her loose and impressionistic sketches.

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The Architect's Newsletter

JULY 26, 2023

Norman Foster Centre Pompidou Paris, France Through August 7 Arriving on the top floor of the Pompidou meant relishing a ride up the escalator tubes running the length of the The post From napkin sketches to riches: <em>Norman Foster</em> on view at the Centre Pompidou appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Drawings by Amin Zakaria. Image Courtesy of Morpholio Trace In the blink of an eye, we've entered an era where architects and interior designers can effortlessly craft 3D floor plans of a room, capturing essential elements like dimensions and furnishings, using the LiDAR Scanner on our iPhone or iPad.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Whatever your preference, designers can undoubtedly benefit from products that blend pen and paper-style sketching with advanced digital tools. The beauty of an app like Spaces is its merging of old-school sketching with modern-day technology. While users sketch, the app works behind the scenes to create a workable building model.

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Lines on Paper

APRIL 12, 2024

We attend RF's dad's funeral. When we arrive, the monks had finished their prayers and one of them is giving a sermon. We sit on the carpet and listen from the rear of the gathering. RF turns around and catches sight of us, she comes over to sit with us.

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Deezen

APRIL 22, 2022

British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare and architect India Mahdavi have redesigned the Gallery dining room at London venue Sketch , adding site-specific artworks, warm golden colours and textured materials to its interior. The Gallery at Sketch is now covered in warm yellow hues. Warmth is the new colour at Sketch.".

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Shades of Grey

JANUARY 30, 2023

The fourth book was never completed, but during the pandemic I decided to recreate some of the sketches using digital methods, mostly SketchBook Pro which used to belong to Autodesk and is still my favourite drawing app for the Samsung Note. More sketches from 1986 when I was a curriculum developer in Zimbabwe.

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designboom

APRIL 20, 2022

The post an autobiography in pictures: see louis kahn’s drawings and travel sketches in new book set appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. remembered as a modernist master, architect louis kahn was also a keen artist who was ‘never not drawing’.

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designboom

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The post ross lovegrove offers intimate tour of his sketches and process in recent interview appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. the designer has made his name working at the threshold of the analogue and digital worlds.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Case in point … on my own Instagram account, I share a fair amount of sketches and details, all sorts of ideas that I am working through. I submit as exhibit 1 and 2, some random details that I sketched up and published on Instagram for all the world to see: View this post on Instagram.

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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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Lines on Paper

MARCH 30, 2024

The Victoria and Albert Museum Time to start traveling again, I miss the wandering around with Sam. Drinking coffee or beer at odd times of the day - 'oohh this looks nice, let's see what they have.'. And people are usually very nice, happy to give us a taste of their beers, or gelato, or offer useful information.

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designboom

MARCH 8, 2022

celebrating its 20th year, sketch gallery showcases shonibare’s artist-conceived vision for the restaurant, presented within a new golden setting by mahdavi. The post sketch says farewell to its iconic pink and welcomes new golden setting by india mahdavi appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

The accounts that I've included here are all spectacularly good at "architectural" sketches - which is an important distinction to make. I follow a lot of sketching accounts, probably half of which are anime-related. Continue reading Best Instagram Accounts to Follow for Architectural Sketching at Life of an Architect.

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30X40 Design Workshop

MAY 23, 2022

Concept Sketch. In this video, I'm sharing my process and paying it forward. I hope it inspires you to leverage the 'language of construction' and to treat your drawing practice as an art form too. Walls, Doors, + Windows. Wall Poch é + Material Hatches. Floor edges + Medium Weight Lines. Color washes + toning.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 14, 2018

Architects sketch as a part of doing their job – at least all the good ones that I know. Right now, as a general rule, it would appear that depending on how old you are, you either sketch, use computer software, or some portion of both to work through your ideas. I have indicated the area shown within the dashed white ring above.

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L² Design

JULY 14, 2020

The post Doing some web research for #AREsketches and found that a planning commission in Arkansas used my sketches during some research and improvement planning for their town. ???????? ARE sketches help Architects and non-Architects alike! Sign up here! via Instagram [link]. whatanarchitectdoes appeared first on L² Design, LLC.

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Deezen

JULY 12, 2022

The post Ten Zaha Hadid Design products that go "beyond a simple translation from sketch to object" appeared first on Dezeen. Read: Zaha Hadid Design and Odlo launch activewear collection for women. See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.

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30X40 Design Workshop

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Sketching is thinking. Sketching is seeing. Sketching is learning. I think that’s part of the magic of learning to sketch, it allows me to see problems with a child’s mind, the mind of an amateur. I designed the BLANK sketchbook because I know how transformative establishing a sketching habit can be.

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Architonic

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In the case of <a href="[link] the idea was similar, but the innovation was to fold, with one of the first foldable glass walls in history being sketched on a beer mat 40 years ago.</p> Like the first Mini by designer Alec Issigonis or <a href="[link] Starck</a>'s intergalactic lemon squeeze.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 4, 2024

Sketch of Bonnet Springs Park / Sasaki. Image © Sasaki “ Landscape architects have started conversations about embodied carbon.

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Architectural representation plays a fundamental role both in the design process - from the very first sketches to the finest construction details - and in its presentation to a wider audience.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 11, 2015

I typically don’t give it a lot of thought – as soon as my architectural sketches have served their purpose, they get thrown away. So, keep my sketches or throw them away … I am struggling with that idea. Is this floor plan sketch art? I don’t consider them valuable or even worthwhile to keep.

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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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Enscape

APRIL 4, 2024

Gone are the days when interior designers relied solely on sketches and 2D drawings to convey their visions. Today, 3D rendering in interior design has become a cornerstone of the industry, marking a significant shift from these traditional methods. Here's a guide on getting started in rendering with Enscape.

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30X40 Design Workshop

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Sketch with me in this video as I design custom details for the Outpost project. And, quite often, if I'm stuck on a design brief, I’ll zoom in and begin sketching a detail. Starting informally with a sketch allows me to be free and fast with ideas and it leads me to other threads I hadn't anticipated.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 9, 2018

Architectural sketches typically fall into two distinctive camps (other than “Great!” ” or “terrible”) and the relative purpose of those sketches seem to reflect the time period with when the sketch was actually created … during design or during construction.

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ArchDaily

JULY 13, 2023

Utilizing technologies to revolutionize the nature of design processes, Codesign emerges as a pioneering tool that leverages the power of the iPad and the flexibility of sketching to inform and encourage architects in exploring all the angles and potentialities of their ideas.

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