Location: Offsite

If you are Downtown already, Please report to McEwen School of Architecture Main Lobby 15 minutes prior to your scheduled departure. If you are still at LU, please report 15 minutes prior to your scheduled departure to the OAA Dispatch Hub located next to Registration in the R.D. Parker Building.

3 ConEd Learning Hours
3 AIA LU
1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Once we were all children, and we loved to draw. It might have been as we whiled away time on a rainy day or to keep occupied while waiting for food to arrive at the restaurant. It was something we could do alone or with friends or family. Somewhere along the way, many of us lost interest or fell out of love with drawing, only to revisit it in high school art class or creating crazy doodles while we procrastinated. Later, when we decided to enter the architecture profession, we revisited all of those doodles, paintings, and sketches, and realized just how important they are as tools to communicate our ideas and, most importantly, the way we think! So we draw!

“The struggle to depict something by hand gives you time to ‘know’ that something.”
“Drawing is seeing is knowing.”
“Drawings express the interaction of our mind, eyes, and hands.”
Architectural drawing or sketching predicts where design ideas can go. This is indeed the pleasure of it all and the focus of this workshop: to look at the power of architectural hand drawing, how it aids in telling architectural stories, and the importance it has in creating ‘products’ like buildings, cities, and places for people.

Learning Objectives
1. Understand ways to translate visual information into graphic information.
2. Learn how to better understand our built environment.
3. Easily create convincing hand drawings using perspective.
4. Understand the value hand drawing brings to you as a member of the architecture profession.

Paul Backewich, Architect, OAA, MRAIC, is an architect and creative problem solver, who had worked with WZMH Architects, DIALOG, Diamond + Schmitt Architects Inc., Robbie Young + Wright Architects, Adamson Associates Architects, as well as Pellow and Associates Architects Inc. and dkstudio architects inc. He is currently working at Calnitsky + Associates Architects based in Winnipeg, where the practice is focusing on designs for significant First Nations projects. He has worked with some of the most successful development organizations in Canada (Cadillac Fairview, Oxford Properties, DREAM, etc.) as well as community groups including Children’s Aid Society and Woodgreen.

Activity Level: Low, comfortable shoes recommended