3 ConEd Learning Hours
3.0 AIA LU

 
This is a very popular sketch course. Attendees 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 will learn different freehand sketching techniques, one by one, at different locations: thumbnail sketches, contrast/value, and speed sketching. Sketching will focus on interesting outdoor and/or indoor locations in Toronto near the Conference venue, and will reflect the Inspiring Climate Action Conference theme. Sketching will be outdoors if weather permits. Come prepared to do some walking, whether outdoors, indoors, or a combination.

Learning Objectives:

 1. Learn or improve on the following freehand sketching skills and techniques: contour lines, value and contrast, composition, and one-point and two-point perspective. Participants will perform the behaviour through specific sketching exercises.
2. Improve your ability to document and remember the existing built environment. Participants will perform the behaviour through specific sketching exercises that enhance quick composition and drawing technique.
3. Improve your ability to use freehand sketching as an architectural design tool. Participants will perform the behaviour through unique sketching exercises at Nanaimo locations.
4. Learn how to draw faster and with more confidence. Participants will perform the behaviour through a speed sketching exercise in which attendees will sketch the same subject multiple times in progressively shorter time frames.

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.