1.5 ConEd Learning Hours
1.5 AIA LU
In a ninety-minute intensive session, attendees gain fundamental architectural practice skills: freehand drawing as a design tool. Through practical exercises and instruction, participants will learn to render in colour, lay out three-dimensional schemes, and communicate unique ideas using freehand drawing. En plein aire or indoor locations close to the Conference venue, participants will learn to rapidly solve design problems, hand to paper.
Achieved through specific exercises, and enhanced by personal instruction, participants will see their progress by reviewing the sketches generated at the beginning and end of the program.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn or improve on colour pencil rendering and colour mixing.
2. Learn or improve on drawing in perspective and concepting with different perspective viewpoints.
3. Learn concepting exercises to solve design ideas with three-dimensional sketches.
4. Learn how to concept with freehand drawing, faster and with more confidence.
Speaker
Joel Berman, RA, NCARB, ALA (principal, Berman Design- Joel Berman Architecture & Design Ltd.)
Joel Berman is the founder and president of Joel Berman Architecture & Design, a Chicago architecture firm specializing in inner-city adaptive reuse and heritage restoration for restaurant, hospitality, institutional, and residential development. His project work includes an award-winning historic preservation of a 1920s White Castle Hamburger building, conversion of a 1906 Chicago fire station into a major video production, and post-edit facility, and design of franchise system retail templates and branding. For Joel, clear and fast sketching has been a factor in the success of his design work and architectural practice. A licensed architect in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Texas, he has taught architectural sketching at the Chicago Architecture Center, Urban Sketchers Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, the Alberta Association of Architects, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC), and previous OAA Conferences.