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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Mining Sketching Concept Art 138

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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Sketching Design Mining Information 111

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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Architecture Student Students Sketching Architecture 103

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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Sketching Design Clients Client 97

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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Architect Sketching Contemporary Mining 111

Deezen

APRIL 28, 2023

Poêle Collection is a "serious trial" in furniture for Alessi "It has always been a dream of mine to enter the world of furniture significantly," said Alberto Alessi, who has run the company since 1970. Now, with the Poêle Collection and Philippe Starck, we are doing a serious trial," he said.

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Manufacturing Mining Technology Technology 105

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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Restoration Mining Sketching Landscape 99

Life of an Architect

MAY 25, 2015

The sketch above is one of the very first ones I created when I started thinking about what sort of playhouse I would design this year. Pretty simple sketch and idea, but make no mistake about it, these playhouses can be deceptively complicated little buildings – at least they are the way I do them.

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Construction Construction Sketching Finishes 111

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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Sketching Mining Site Transportation 60

Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Snappy photos certainly help … I took mine on the job site and I’m certainly not a professional photographer. Terrific graphics help as well … I have some sketches and every construction drawing ( except the roof plan ) I created in the course of the one Saturday I took to prepare them.

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Design Mining Sketching Housing 110

Lines on Paper

MARCH 27, 2024

Both were quite received, although that the client slightly preferred mine, for its simplicity in planning (and perhaps the symmetry as well). This morning, I realise soon after I arrive that I do not have the time to sketch the revised site layouts and update the 3D as well. Last week, we presented a housing scheme to our client.

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Finishes Mining Sketching Clients 52

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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Architect Sketching Mining Clients 75

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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Mining Sketching Windows Inspiration 80

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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Architect Sketching Management Technology 73

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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Foundation Architect Sketching Contract 110

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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Architect Firms Permits Modern 236

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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Architect Mining Sketching Architecture Student 108

aasarchitecture

APRIL 26, 2024

Design, Dismantle, Disseminate” [“The City as a Resource to be Mined. “Città Miniera.

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Installation Mining Architect Design 59

Shades of Grey

MARCH 25, 2024

The picture in the background is a preliminary sketch for a larger picture. Theoretically a self-help movement in the working class community I grew up in, based primarily on coal mining. The coal mines disappeared completely but "the Coop" lingers on in a very different form. It dates from my early childhood in Barnsley.

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Mining Sketching Commercial Modern 52

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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Architect Sketching Small Firm Clients 101

Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

While this would get more use by an architect that tends to sketch more, I still believe that it is useful to any architect. You can get smaller sizes of this exact lightbox, but the larger is best for an architect who likes to sketch, draw or design in a non-digital format. This is also a fairly portable item because it is so thin.

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Architect Sketching Residential Concept 101

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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Mining Masterplanning Sketching Clients 52

Hotel Designs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Both firms drew inspiration from the year-round beauty of the Wasatch Mountains and the enduring history and modern sophistication of the destination surrounding the resort, which took root during a silver mining boom in the mid-1800s and has since been transformed into a world-class alpine oasis destination.

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Renovation IT Mining Inspiration 52

Life of an Architect

JANUARY 7, 2018

I settled on metal because, a) I love it, and b) I could also use magnets to help display and store the trace paper sketches I created in bulk. Up next was the sketch shown in the upper right … but almost as soon as I drew it, I realized that this might be the detail equivalent of hyperbole – awesome, but not required.

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Sketching Installation Finishes Mining 60

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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Mining Sketching IT Architect 64

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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Architect Sketching Mining Housing 75

Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

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. Since half of my sketches are total clunkers, the cahier journals seem just a bit more forgiving.

Architect 111

Architect Sketching IT Mining 111

Life of an Architect

JANUARY 28, 2019

Rarely does someone pointing out that I haven’t sketched in a vapor barrier bother me – they’re only trying to help (not sarcasm), and I love that (back to sarcasm ). Let that sink in just a minute ……… one-hundred and ninety door details.

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Project Clients Client Commercial 90

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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Architecture School Sketching Architecture Mining 52

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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Mining Sketching Photoshop Construction 52

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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Small Firm Sketching Mining Firms 40

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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Architecture Architecture School Clients Client 112

Landscape Architecture Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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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Restoration Mining Sketching Landscape 52

30X40 Design Workshop

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Kaweco Special AL 0.9mm Pencil ($38) Nice + Made: German engineering applied to sketching. Click below to see all the fun things I load mine with. Or, borrow a few of mine (blog link)! Add a note about your favorite space in the book - mine's their Japanese work. Thoughtful → Prompt Engineering Course.

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Architect Mining Engineering Engineering 52

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Friends of mine lived a few blocks away on Wrightwood, so I would often walk by the solid front elevation and try to peer at the introverted house from the alley; I never got inside but appreciated the smooth concrete Ando was known for. Most valuable is Conforti's well-researched text.

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Foundation Art Modern Students 98

Life of an Architect

JUNE 9, 2014

Jess Hopkin If it’s any consolation, I use sketch up all the time for trying to make my point at uni Tony Bob, Im new to your blog, and I have had some reading a lot of your posts and insight. By the time the house was mine, I already had plans for a major renovation in 6 phases. Place the fridge at other end of bench.

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Architect Sketching IT Housing 97

Shades of Grey

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

I am a big believer in sketch sheets for internal use. Studying "The Way We Build" across time and space is an obsession of mine. Ultimately what matters are my own inner thought structures and how they emerge and crystalise into commentary as I visit, sketch, model, photograph in this never ending quest. It's the journey.

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Sketching Mining Inspiration Education 52