This session requires attendees to bring sketchpads and drawing pencils.
4 ConEd Learning Hours
1:30 p.m. ‐ 5:30 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 crafting amazing doodles while we procrastinated. Later, when we decided to go for it and become architects, we revisited all of those doodles, paintings, and sketches and realized how important they were as tools to communicate our ideas and, most importantly, the way we think! This session, using hand‐drawing exercises, will show participants the value of drawing in our everyday practice as architects.
Learning Objectives
1. Understand the value of hand drawings in the architectural profession.
2. Learn how to better understand our built environment through drawn analysis.
3. Easily create convincing hand drawings using simple perspectives.
4. Consider the value hand drawing brings to you as an architect.
This sketching session will be taking place at 13th Street Winery in St. Catharines. Awarded Ontario Winery of the year in 2022, the winery will allow you to take in the vineyard, sculptures, and artwork during this half-day sketching session. A complimentary glass of wine is offered to each attendee.
Paul Backewich, Senior Architect
Calnitsky Associates Architects
Paul believes in making the ordinary extraordinary so the world can be a much more interesting place. In the course of his career, he has had many opportunities to meet and work alongside experts in the field of architecture, design, business, and technology who have contributed to his skill and understanding of the profession and assisted in his growth and talent as an architect. He has worked on many building types, assisted in master planning studies for neighbourhoods and universities, illustrated books (OMA/ Bruce Mau), designed exhibitions for prestigious galleries (Bruce Mau/AGO), crafted innovative design proposals which redefined the nature of proposals, won design competitions, and mentored many talented and successful young architects in this country - throughboth the CaGBC and the OAA.
His experience includes leading the design of commercial office projects such as the Canadian headquarters for Motorola in Markham and State Farm Insurance in Aurora. In addition, he was very much involved in the early design of the redevelopment of a new mixed-use commercial/ residential/institutional core for Downtown Markham and was senior designer on significant retail mall redevelopments including the Shops at Don Mills in Toronto, Promenade in Vaughan, and Mapleview Mall in Burlington. Major institutional work has included the design of the New Science Complex at the University of Guelph, a teaching and research science facility which brought together the Colleges of Biological Science and Physical and Engineering Science, and the headquarters for the Children's Aid Society in downtown Toronto. Most recently he is involved in designing community projects for various First nations communities throughout Manitoba As an advocate for the power and beauty of architectural hand-drawing, he strives to create with the energy and excitement that comes with an understanding of the artifice and complexity of great architecture, backed by a solid knowledge of the intricate building systems found in all project types.