An architect shares his personal sketches showing the actual process of designing projects.
Look inside the daily life of a design architect and see the working sketches that are drawn to create architecture. The process of designing a building is complex, exciting, and chaotic. These hand drawn sketches will show the beginning bubble diagrams which show relationships between spaces all the way to the masterplans of large projects that show the complexity of balancing the placement of buildings on properties.
Quick design studies are shown in basic drawings to communicate design concepts and forms. There are exterior building fa�ade developed drawings to illustrate the size, character, and architectural elements. Preferred thoughts on construction details are provided that would be developed further by the officeÕs production team.
You will find many design options for the same project which were used for consideration and discussion with a client team. The many options show several different approaches. There is a wide variety of building and project types. The project sizes range from residential remodels to large hospitality resorts in international locations.
All the drawings are hand drawn with either pencil or pen. These are the directions that an architectural lead designer will give to his support designers as project get fully developed. They range from conceptual design, schematic design and some illustrate construction detailing.
The sketches are intended to show you the behind the scenes work product that is needed to make good projects and to communicate design ideas within the industry. They are meant to inspire you to draw creatively, quickly, and freely without the hindrances of using drawing software.
Architectural Design Sketches 2 is the second of three books where all the illustrations are colored. Architectural Design Sketches 1 & 3 completes the series with more black and white design drawings.