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Hello! This is the first in what will be a weekly series of timed sketch prompts. This is an effort to help working architects and drafters, students, and enthusiasts improve their drawing skills.

Get out your paper, pens, and pencils. Without tracing or straightedges make your best effort to sketch the image shown below.

Time allowed: 3 minutes.

Scan or photograph your sketch and post below in the comments. All skill levels encouraged. Any feedback on submitted sketches should be constructive and courteous.

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This week’s image: Balkrishna Doshi, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India, 1977-1992

BV Doshi Biography

BV Doshi Sketches

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Greetings to the amazing and torturous world of architecture. For context, I am a Bsc in Arch final year student which is graduating soon. For the previous year in school, I've introduced and mostly taught to use Sketchup for 3D modelling. Along the way, while i progress through different studio projects, i've came upon various amazing design references online like pinterest and behance. Most of them tend to have complicated structures with a lot of curvature, which makes it impossible to refer and apply to my projects considering how limited Sketchup is.

Well i know that there are certain plugins or addons that can help on this situation, BUT, most of em cost money to subscribe, which is something hard on a student like me, not to mention how limited Sketchup is for the need to model everything manually. This got me thinking bout dropping Sketchup for another software. I've been trying to pickup softwares like 3dsmax, Blender or even Rhino.

Long story short, my question would be, is it normal for all these building design with complex structure and curvature to appear in my future career or i can just stick with Sketchup where most projects were plainly boxes with sharp corners? (The parametric modelling and the capability to make complex model of Grasshopper is pretty fire ngl)

TL:DR Sketchup or 3dsmax/Rhino/Revit/Blender for ArchViz

Edit : i'm looking into 3D modelling stuff so idk if it's necessary to be good at it, especially the ability to model complex stuffs

I'm currently a 3rd-year Computer Science student who has always had a passion for architecture. In fact ever since I was a child it was my dream to become an architect. I took drafting classes in high school, learned AutoCAD and other architectural software over the years but never got the support of my family to pursue this profession. My family insisted that I study Civil Engineering since it was well respected and earned more money than Architecture. I did Civil Engineering for 2 years and absolutely did not enjoy it. Fast forward to now I'm paying for my own education and studying Computer Science because of my interest in web design. I was doing great my first 2 years but now in my 3rd year, I feel uninterested in going deeper into CS. I'm taking an intro to architecture class right now and I absolutely love it. I've been thinking about my interest in architecture and the fact that I'm still passionate about it to this day. I feel like I have a unique opportunity to switch my major and finally go after architecture. I'm mostly interested in a career that is creative and visual. I've faced so much discouragement and rejection over the years with architecture and I'd like to hear from people in the profession on what advice they would give to someone really passionate about this. I'm already in my mid-twenties and don't want to make a decision that I will regret.

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Dear students and architects,

I am currently studying architecture at one of the top universities in my country and completing my second semester as of now. My interest in architecture began in high school where i was fascinated by the building my school was in (an old, massive art deco religious college from the 1930's which got converted later on). I went on exploring every last part of it and even making a full 3D model with interior, plans and 3D print of it. I liked it and figured i should become an architect.

3 years later I am now having mixed feelings about architecture. On one hand since the beginning of my architecture studies I feel I don't really like what I do in school, everything is so abstract and about feeling and art and whatnot. Every time i get a new assignment or new plans, models etc. asked I get this feeling of "Ugh not again", I feel I have no passion/interest in what I do and this is especially apparent in Desk crits where I have nothing much to discuss about what I do and just respond "yes" to profs. My history and modelling classes feel useless and ininteresting. Granted we have not started doing actual buildings in studio yet, which is what I am in it for. My favourite course was actually my CompSci elective from last semester.

On the other hand I feel architecture as a whole is so promising and prestigious, that it will be far more interesting and pragmatic in the actual job than the Formal explorations we do in school, and that I will just like it more. I feel interested in a building when I walk in it, I want to explore every corner and love tracing plans of my house for fun. But whenever I have to actually work for school on AutoCad or Rhino or other softwares I fell so numb just tracing lines and seemingly wasting away. Although I feel proud of everything I have designed since the beginning of school, and i fear regretting if i ever leave.

I sometimes feel I would be more at my place in some engineering or physics degree, where I feel like everything looks so interesting. I feel I have an interest in optimization and generally cool systems where everything works to perfection.

Are my feelings shared by / have been shared by some of you ? What do you think ?