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From Sketch to Painting: A Digital Art Gallery To Inspire Everyday Architectural Work

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This platform combines works from various sources of inspiration and artistic techniques, encompassing everything from sketches and paintings to architectural photography. It fuses multiple influences from various contexts, including architectural work. Read more ยป

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Exploring the Passive Architectural Strategies in Renzo Pianoโ€™s Iconic Buildings

ArchDaily

With an oeuvre that blends respect for context, lightness and technology to create environmentally conscious and aesthetically pleasing structures, his approach combines advanced materials with traditional techniques. This is often made explicit in his sketches, as an initial concern, and clearly comes through in the finished works.

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Recycled stone forms walls of Rajasthan farmhouse by Sketch Design Studio

Deezen

Sketch Design Studio has completed a rural residence in north India that combines a highly ordered facade with a rustic stone interior. The technique pays tribute to the legacy of eminent architect Laurie Baker, whose work is mostly found in South India. The photography is by Purnesh Dev, with styling by Rahul Kukreja.

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Architectural Sketching [or How to Sketch like Bob] | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

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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Mud House by Sketch Design Studio takes cues from Rajasthan stepwells

Deezen

Sketch Design Studio has designed and built a farmhouse in northern India that combines rammed earth walls and a thatch roof with a form inspired by stepwells. This approach led Sketch Design Studio to build Mud House with walls of rammed earth, which was sourced on site and mixed with lime and fenugreek seeds as natural binders.

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Architectural Sketches | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

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. There are many different styles and techniques that architects use when graphically working through problems.

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Londonโ€™s sketch says goodbye to pink with new interiors by India Mahdavi and Yinka Shonibare

The Spaces

When it comes to dining experiences, London โ€™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. Photography: Edmund Dabney. Cultural appropriation can be a two-way street. 9 Conduit St, London W1S 2XG, United Kingdom.

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