EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Courtneys journey offers a compelling narrative of how a small firm architect can leverage cutting-edge technology and a well-structured remote team to streamline operations, enhance client service, and scale a business. The iPad Pro, equipped with the right hardware and software, helps Courtney document conditions quickly and effectively.

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Deezen

JULY 12, 2022

To mark 10 years of the sculptural space at Roca, the site itself has now become an exhibition space for objects from the ZHD portfolio, featuring furniture and other home accessories as well as fashion, jewellery, carpets and lighting.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

About 30 days and thousands of sketches later, it’s time for the next round of Architectural Sketches – The Series. I really want to try and demonstrate that there are all sorts of ways that architects sketch and work through design challenges, but my sketches just aren’t that great as standalone items.

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Architizer

JANUARY 2, 2025

One day you might be sketching initial designs, the next youre sitting in on client meetings or even overseeing construction on-site. Youre part of every step, which means you learn to connect the dots between design, clients and construction. In a small firm, youre not just designing in isolation, they explained.

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Archmark

APRIL 7, 2025

But in todays digital-first world, your website is often the first impression a potential client has of your firm. You Need a Better First Impression Would you meet a potential client in a messy office with outdated dcor? If your site doesnt adapt to different screen sizes, youre losing potential clients. Probably not.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs. ” We challenge the obvious solutions and aesthetics in favor of creating something unique, derived from the company’s identity and our client’s dreams.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Completed in 2014, Gehry’s landmark building is undoubtedly an architectural icon, but manages to retain a reference for both its site in the heart of Paris’s beloved park and for the city as a whole. When I walked the site for the first time, I cried imagining the history of the Jardin de Climitation.

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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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SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 14, 2024

With each project, they must understand their client’s needs, contextualize the project within its environment, and identify constraints before embarking on a journey of creative exploration. For example, architects will exhaustively study the subject site, investigating its history, topography, regulatory framework, and cultural context.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Architecture is often framed as a balance between creative inspiration and technical execution sketching ideas, refining concepts and ultimately turning vision into built reality. Indeed, while clients and the general public often admire the final product, the behind-the-scenes process of material specification remains largely invisible.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 27, 2014

I have asked him to guest write on my site several times without success, but I finally had a topic that suited him … Schematic Design and “Design in a Day” Douglas Burke (aka: architectrunnerguy) Lives in Annapolis, MD. You’ll need a template so find out if the client has a to scale plan of the existing house.

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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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Life of an Architect

JULY 6, 2014

There is a secret that all attentive architects know: Don’t give your client what they ask for, give them what they need. In order to create personal and successful designs, you need to develop a relationship with your client that goes beyond providing functionality solely based on their requests.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 6, 2014

From the point of view of our clients, great architecture is where we start. So, yes, great design is important, but it’s not what’s going to keep our clients happy? The first step, before you ever put your pen to sketch paper, is to know what your client is looking for. We’re in the Client Happiness Business.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Whether it be to develop a design, contextualize a project or win over a client, the metaverse is making its mark in the architecture community. Designers can therefore replicate writing and hand-sketching directly in the virtual world! Learn more.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 16, 2022

The East Dareen Beach Neighborhood Park site in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, is a serious place: Bounded by a missile silo to the north, its double shore of coast and island form results from a dredge-ravaged coastline—and it is a major part of the city’s treated sewage effluent (TSE) program. By Jessica Bridger. Image courtesy Michael Blier, FASLA.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 6, 2013

I have no portfolio of my own to show clients. I’ve shared articles on how much it may cost to start your own firm and how Annmarie and I launched Fivecat Studio with no clients and very little money. Your first clients may come from relationships built during your time as an employee. How do I get that first solo project?”

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e-architect

APRIL 6, 2025

The site presented as a compact urban setting with our challenge to conceal, direct and connect to spaces beyond. Our engineer and build team were stellar on this and we worked closely, with a flurry of hand sketches and text message to get to a result commensurate of the space. Resort vibes, domestic ease. They’re happy.

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Deezen

JUNE 5, 2022

Blackened wood facades, a central cube for sleeping and meditation, and light-filled rooms feature in a California home that was designed by US architects Annie Barrett and Hye-Young Chung for art-loving clients. As the clients approach semi-retirement, they desired a long-term home that would be suitable for an evolving lifestyle.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 2, 2014

Whenever an architect sits down with a new client on a new residential project, the first thing that happens is a conversation about project goals and requirements. As we are talking, I would ask questions and draw diagrams right in front of the clients to make sure we were on the same page. It was way better.

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Architizer

MAY 11, 2023

From sketching the earliest of ideas to unveiling new worlds in digital landscapes, many tools have revolutionized the way we work and transformed how we communicate our ideas. Bidding adieu to the delightful chaos of the napkin sketches, programs like AutoCAD and Vectorworks become our new best friends.

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Architizer

MAY 3, 2022

With SketchUp for iPad designers can bring their 3D models on the go, from cars to remote workspaces and construction sites. Markup mode allows users to sketch, redline, and annotate on top of their 3D models using Apple Pencil, combining the fluidity of trace paper with the tools of a digital touchpad.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Brazilian architecture studio DB Arquitetos has completed a holiday home surrounded by a wooden screen in a forested site outside of São Paulo , Brazil. The five-level house is delicately stacked along a steep slope in a densely vegetated site.

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Architizer

JANUARY 23, 2024

Ideation and concept design, for example, vary significantly compared to drawing technical details or conducting site analysis. Architects can also upload their own image, for example an initial sketch or render, and modify it through additional prompts. Nevertheless, their applications are not limited to text-based imagery.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Instead of spending numerous hours sketching, drawing and model making, “creative” AI apps can generate countless concepts in a matter of seconds by simply feeding them client briefs. From climatological site conditions to potential present or future occupants and even immaterial data such as past histories, myths or cultural norms.

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Architizer

MAY 10, 2023

Manual methods, such as sketching or building paper models, force a designer to make decisions in a highly conscious manner, encouraging a more deliberate, considered approach to architectural design that is hard to replicate through technology. Drawings and models help to communicate design ideas to clients.

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Deezen

JULY 17, 2022

The clients sought a design that would provide them with a sense of place — a year-round 'cottage in the city' was the brief," said the studio. The site, a post-war suburb north of Toronto, while generous in proportion is perfectly flat," said architecture studio Agathom. "The Agathom designed a "cottage in the city" in Toronto.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

“ VIRTUAL | REALITY ” by Giangtien Nguyen, Afreen Ali, Aziz Alshayeb and Erik H Kusakariba, INVI LLC From designing immersive virtual environments and prototypes to crafting a 1:1 scale client presentation and even setting up real-time construction simulations, XR technology brings architectural ideas into “reality” in a matter of hours.

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misfits' architecture

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

He says clients tend to choose him because they trust him with sites and landscapes that mean a lot to them. When Fujimori asked one client what kind of house theyd like, they replied You decide. Other materials, details and everything else seem to be decided out on site. Pine trees are hardy and grow very well on roofs.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Tim arobindo gupta error on the site … not working Kevin Keller Online entry still isn’t working. Marianne Brignac Great creativity – great talent – thx for the architectural eye candy sketches! Enough talking … here are some of the recognized entries from last years event. Very inspiring. At least for me.

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DesignRulz

APRIL 24, 2023

This title highlights your expertise in creating accurate and detailed 3D models, as well as your ability to produce high-quality renderings to showcase design concepts to clients. Future Trends in 3D Modeling and Rendering: What’s on the Horizon?

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

6:45am I had to sketch out a quick graphic image for my annual “ What to Get an Architect for Christmas ” post. A Christmas ornament seemed Christmas-y enough so I sketched it up, took a picture of it with my phone, brought it into Photoshop where I added some color, and then *BOOM* … the graphic was created.

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aasarchitecture

JANUARY 20, 2022

Situated in an ecological belt of the Songshan Lake district, the new campus sprawls over a wider site area of 137,273 sqm. Nick Cordingley, Design Partner commented: “Our design for the new campus is deeply rooted in the natural environment of the site, offering a people-oriented, sustainable and technology-driven campus.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 26, 2014

This process includes As-built field verification, several hundred iterations of sketches, and hours of discussions regarding appropriate materials, finishes, appliance packages, faucets, sinks, hardware, cabinet layouts, drawer inserts, and on and on. In fact, it is the most read post on my site (thank goodness I got it right).

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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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The Spaces

MARCH 16, 2023

Photography: Alexander Lervik The discovery of an even deeper foundation on the site made way for a new below-ground office level, where Elin runs her business and Alexander keeps a woodshop –and the renovation doubled the couple’s living space. Or he’ll be right here, sketching away, acting as his own best client.

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 15, 2016

What About Sketching? I’m not sure that it’s that big a deal nowadays – and it would seem that most graduating architecture students don’t really know how to sketch based on the portfolio’s I’ve seen. Can’t draw? It must be Presentation Skills … right?

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