Architectural sketching begins long before the pencil touches the paper. It begins with the way we look at the world. An architect walking through a city does not only see buildings. The architect sees proportions, rhythms, masses, openings, shadows, surfaces, perspectives, relationships, movement and hidden geometries. A street becomes a composition. A window becomes a module. A shadow reveals depth. A human figure becomes a measurement of scale. Architectural sketching is t

There is a moment in every creative process before logic takes control. It may appear as a sensation, an image, a movement, a strange attraction to a line, a sudden emotional response or a feeling that something wants to emerge before we can explain why. Most of us are trained to move quickly past this moment. We analyze, organize, correct and search for reasons. Intuitive sketching does the opposite. It stays with that first invisible impulse long enough to let it become vis