Architectural Sketching: Thinking with Pen and Paper
Utilizing Your Sketching Skills
A course by Saleh Alenzave , Architect
About the video: Utilizing Your Sketching Skills
Overview
“In this lesson, you will discover how to utilize your sketching skills in your learning and design process, as well as your professional projects.”
In this video lesson Saleh Alenzave addresses the topic: Utilizing Your Sketching Skills, which is part of the Domestika online course: Architectural Sketching: Thinking with Pen and Paper. Use the blank page as a thinking tool to design new buildings by exploring conceptual sketching methods with just a pen and your sketchbook.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we are going to talk how you can utilize your sketching skills in learning process. I can say that holding your sketchbook all the time with you, sketching building and natural elements, will help you a lot to understand the environment around you. And that is much better than taking a photo of that elements. and we are understanding the relations between its elements and its parts. As we have seen together, we learn how to sketch in different methods. So, now you can sketch your ideas and express it. by using really simple sketches. Tell you develop your design concept and ...”
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Course summary for: Architectural Sketching: Thinking with Pen and Paper
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Category
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Areas
Architectural Illustration, Architecture, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Spatial Design

Saleh Alenzave
A course by Saleh Alenzave
Saleh Alenzawe is a senior architect from Syria currently based in Istanbul. Saleh graduated with a Master’s in architecture at Damascus University in 2012. His final project, which provided houses for those living in poor conditions, kickstarted his career. He has gone on to work internationally in countries including Syria, Turkey, Qatar, and Egypt in the past 12 years.
Saleh’s portfolio of work includes residential, commercial, and governmental architectural projects. He is highly experienced in digital architectural computer programs including Revit, Naviswork, and Autocad, as well as freehand sketching. Saleh regularly shares his work with over 90k followers on Instagram, and names the worlds of architecture, nature, and sport as his biggest inspirations.
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