Your first assumption might be that I can’t hold down a job – observant but not true. In fact, the firm where I currently work as a principal is one of those 5 offices (I worked there 2001 – 2003) and I put the drafting standards in place then … and now that we are in Revit, I am once again making changes. May not seem like a big deal to you but I’m in my 5th office since that time. It was a big deal to me 20 years ago and even though we don’t draw by hand anymore, it’s still a big deal to me.Įver since I left the last big firm I worked for (RTKL 97-98), every office I have worked for, I’ve changed the graphic standards in that office. It was art to me … I thought these drawings were beautiful and I didn’t want other people working on my sheets, adding their sloppy pencil work to the magic I had created. You could look at the hand drawn construction drawings and frequently tell who had drawn what sheets and what details. I consciously endeavored to add profile lines, hatching, foreground and background indicators in place.
I used 3 or 4 different lead holders with leads of varying degrees of hard/soft to them.
#ARCHITECTURAL FONT NAMES HOW TO#
This was where I really learned how to draw but before you old folks say “that’s right!” and you younger folks look at this as old-timers syndrome, I’m not saying that we drew better, I’m just saying it was different. Some of the larger production commercial firms had the resources to buy “CAD Stations” and dedicate substantial office space to server rooms complete with NASA-looking tape storage systems, but most firms were still drawing things by hand. When I graduated from architecture school in 199, computers were not that prevalent. For the purposes of today’s article, I am going to assume that all architectural drawings are correct and serve their purpose of conveying intent, scope, and quantity.īut that’s not really the entire story, is it? I didn’t say the contentof their drawings – and this isn’t just semantics – it speaks to the culture of the firm. How an architect draws is a reflection of many things – you can frequently tell the priorities of a firm just by looking at the qualityof their drawings.
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