From Mind to Paper: Design Thinking Through Drawing Workshop
What if your most powerful design tool was your pencil? Join Bradford J. Prestbo, FAIA, and David Damon, AIA, for a fun, high-energy workshop that puts freehand sketching back at the heart of design thinking! In 90 minutes, you’ll be sketching your way to clearer thinking, faster ideas, and communicating architectural intent with confidence.
Built around exercises from Prestbo’s workbook From Mind to Paper: Enhance Design Thinking Through Drawing, this interactive session shows how sketching helps you think more clearly, generate ideas faster, and communicate design intent with confidence. Participants will actively draw architectural elements, materials, spaces, and concepts while learning how sketching fuels creativity, rapid ideation, problem-solving, and visual storytelling.
Designed for architecture students, emerging professionals, faculty, practicing architects, and anyone passionate about architecture and the built environment, this workshop is practical, engaging, and immediately useful—whether you’re designing, brainstorming, or simply exploring architecture through drawing.
Get ready to:
- Build confidence sketching architectural ideas quickly and clearly
- Learn practical techniques for drawing spaces, materials, and key architectural elements
- Use sketching as a tool for ideation, iteration, and clearer communication
- Strengthen the connection between drawing and design thinking
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