Urban Sketching: Consider the city at three scales

{"version":"0.3.0","atoms":[],"cards":[],"markups":[],"sections":[[1,"p",[[0,[],0,"Quick, hand sketches, freehand pen and ink drawings, and watercolor washes are easy to produce and help build quick understanding. But, hand drawing is often not taught in architecture schools, and emerging professionals enter the profession with limited ability to convey their early concepts and ideas. Then, since design process is mostly completed using digital tools, architects of all experience levels lose touch with skills and seldom harness sketching to communicate design concepts. "]]],[1,"p",[[0,[],0,"However, many architects believe that sketches can be used to increase engagement and collaboration with clients, consultants, construction managers, and stakeholders."]]],[1,"p",[[0,[],0,"Participants in this Sketching Workshop will observe, sketch, and discuss downtown Spokane, Washington as they learn new methods of sketching during the architectural design process. This workshop explores the belief that hand drawing is not an obsolete skill, that drawing allows us, as architects, to develop a natural grace in the way we design our projects and engage the world around us. Drawing helps us think better. No mouse, no monitor, no wires, just the hand and the eye will lead architects through the art of discover of drawing tools, new techniques of application and graphic presentation methods of the place they are seeing."]]]]}