Location: Offsite - buses and meeting spot, Parker Building, Laurentian Main campus

Please report 15 minutes prior to your scheduled departure to the OAA Dispatch Hub located next to Registration in the R.D. Parker Building

7 ConEd Learning Hours

7 AIA LU

9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

In this session, gain a basic, essential, professional skill and delight—the ability to communicate easily, clearly, and quickly through freehand sketching. With practical instruction and coaching from the course leader, participants learn different freehand sketching techniques, one by one, at different locations: thumbnail sketches, contrast/value, and speed sketching. At the end of the session, participants pull together what they have learned in a final sketch. Sketching will focus on interesting outdoor and/or indoor locations in Sudbury near the conference venue, and reflect the Designing for Dignity theme. 

Learning Objectives

1. Learn or improve upon the following freehand sketching skills and techniques: composition, and value and contrast.
2. Improve participants’ ability to document and remember the existing built environment.
3. Learn how to draw faster and with more confidence.
4. Improve participants’ ability to use freehand sketching as an architectural design tool.

Joel Berman, ALA, NCARB, is the founder and president of Berman Architecture, a Chicago design firm specializing in hospitality, adaptive reuse, food production, and residential development. Project work includes an award-winning historic preservation renovation of a 1920s White Castle building, conversion of a 1906 Chicago fire station into a major video production and post edit facility, and design of branded restaurant and retail prototypes with locations around the US. Joel has expertise designing food-focused projects—private event spaces, restaurants, commercial kitchens, commercial bakeries and breweries, and ghost kitchens. He is a registered architect, and a member of the Association of Licensed Architects. Joel has NCARB certification and is designated by the City of Chicago as a Self-Certified Architect. Joel is a licensed architect in multiple U.S. states.

Note: Lunch will be provided on this tour.