The Importance of Manual Sketching in Practice - Introduction

Send us Fan Mail Principals aren't encouraging young architects to sketch any more. What firms hire for is Revit proficiency; sketching has been demoted to a personal plus, useful to the graduate but not asked for by the organisation. So I put the question to a former student of mine, Aminuddin Zakaria — a design architect and BIM lead working on civic and institutional projects at Arkiskape Sdn Bhd — and his answer was blunt. He sees very few graduates sketching in practice, and even experie...