sketching and design
2001.11.11 20:32
Randolph wrote:
Speaking as someone who started that way, I'd have to say that one does not develop the hand by photography, and this became a problem when I went on (very belatedly) to pursue design.
Steve replies:
When I graduated from architecture school (in 1981) I received the AIA Medal for Excellence in Design. I was never good at, and remain no good at, sketching. I received a D+ in the only college computer (BASIC/FORTRAN) course I ever took. In 1983 the office of Cooper and Pratt Architects sent me to Intergraph in Alabama for one week of CAD training. Since then I have 'drawn' probably thousands of perspectives, and only God knows how many plans and elevations, and 'constructed' many, many detailed computer models.
The issue is that the tools of dexterity have changed enormously over the last two decades, and architects really should be blindly facile with the new tools.
I believe continually 'taking pictures' is like continually practicing the piano in that one is continually practicing perception and vision.
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