It's not a secret - or at least it shouldn't be much of one. Architects should be on Instagram and I would like for them to post pictures of what they do during the day. There is so much good stuff … [Read more...]
Architectural Sketch Series: Schematic Design
In a moment of absolute madness, I decided to write today's post on schematic design and populate it with 11(!?!) schematic design sketches - basically what amounts to a digital summarization of the … [Read more...]
As-Built Drawing Adventure
If you are an architect, it's a pretty safe bet that at some point in your career you've had to go on site and collect some existing dimensions for a project. My career is now almost 30 years in the … [Read more...]
Don’t Let the Internet Design Your Project
Despite knowing it was coming for me, I decided to post one of my recent sketches to Instagram and Facebook ... and I was murdered. For 95% of those folks doing the murdering, their intentions were … [Read more...]
003: Sketching
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. … [Read more...]
Architectural Sketches 003 – Japanese Playhouse
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 when the sketch was … [Read more...]