In his introduction to Drawing from Practice: Architects and the Meaning of Freehand, author J. Michael Welton explains that his personal interest in architectural drawing was inspired by three pencil sketches of the Virginia countryside drawn during the winters of 1946 and 1947 by his father, a World War II veteran, when he was a graduate student in… Continue reading Book Review / Drawing from Practice: Architects and the Meaning of Freehand
AJK Design Studio Custom Registers & Vents
Annie Kantor knows a thing or two about pattern. After graduating at the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Textile Design in 1994, she began a career designing woven fabrics, most recently as the Head of the Custom Studio at Maharam. The Oakland-California based designer, whose company AJK Design Studio debuted at this year's ICFF in… Continue reading AJK Design Studio Custom Registers & Vents
Five Highlights from AIA Convention 2015
A few weeks ago I flew down to Atlanta to attend my first AIA Convention in several years. While I have attended major building product expos in the past year or so, AIA remains the best convention for catching up with architects as well as the building product manufacturers who are targeting them. The show, which drew roughly 17,000 attendees, took place… Continue reading Five Highlights from AIA Convention 2015
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