Class 3 Agenda

Class Info

• Date: Saturday, 9/18
• Meeting Info:  https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89561588286

To-Do Before Class

• Purchase a sketchbook (8”x10” or so), an architect’s scale, drawing pencils, a drafting board or t-square (to be used on a square edged table only) and a triangle.

Topics

Introduction to Architectural Drawings: Measuring, Drawing, Dimensioning

Activities

• Perspective drawings
  • Horizon / vanishing point exercise in Miro
• Architectural drawings: plans, sections, elevations
• How to use an architectural scale
• Architectural lettering
• Setting up the title block
• In class sketching
  • Find a piece of furniture in your house (chair, bookshelf, table, etc.) that you will use to prepare a set of sketches. Pick something fairly simple, it’s best if it isn’t super complex.
  • Photograph it and post the photo to Miro
  • Once the photo is posted:
    • Sketch the furniture piece in perspective. If you’d like, you can use the photograph you took to identify the horizon line and vanishing points.
    • Measure the piece of furniture and create a set of scaled drawings (I suggest using 1/2″ = 1′-0″ scale, but you can adjust as needed)
      • One plan
      • One section
      • One elevation
  • Post sketches to Miro

Perspective Drawing Videos:

Architectural Scale:

Architectural Lettering:

To-Do After Class

• In your sketchbook
  • Make a drawing from a photograph of a complex rectilinear building (Robie House, Fallingwater, Unity Temple, for example)
  • Draw a coffee mug, cooking pot, chair, table, or other simple object in your home from multiple points of view (5 sketches)
• We have a field trip next class! Bring your sketchbook and something to draw with!
  • Location: Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn
  • Time: 12:30pm (start of class)
  • Meeting Location: Meet at the main entrance to the cemetery, at the corner of 5th Ave and 25th Street