Name: Things to Know Before Architecture School
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My name is Dami and I'm an architect in Vancouver. So today we're gonna talk about five skills that

you can start developing now, to prepare for architecture school.

and they're gonna help build the foundation for your journey, not just in architecture

school, but on your path to becoming an architect. So when you start architecture

school, there's gonna be so much information thrown at you, that having these basic tools

under your belt will help you absorb more of that information, help you get a leg up

on your peers, and they might also help you avoid those all-nighters. These are things you

can practice little by little every day until you start school. Also, by the end of the

video, I will also teach you a little bonus trick that you can do with a q tip that has

saved me a lot of time for me when I was in school.

The first couple items I will cover all has to do with your communication skills, which

is kind of essential to your success in architecture. Your education is gonna be composed of: architectural

history, theory, building science, structures, sustainability, urban planning, and finally,

your design studio. So the design studio is where you take the culmination of all the things

that you've learned, and create your own design out of it. This project is gonna be your baby, a very

needy baby. It's gonna need feeding and nurturing, it's gonna be constantly on your mind when

you're in the shower or when you go to bed, and you

will be responsible for turning it into something amazing, and when it sucks, everyone is gonna

But it's also the best and most fun part of architecture school.

Anyways, as you go through the design process, you're constantly presenting to your peers,

your instructors, whether it's during desk crits or during your final presentation.

The most important thing to remember  is: show, don't tell. You don't want to just

talk about your ideas, you actually want to show them, with sketches, drawings, or renders.

So the first skill i want you to practice every single day, is sketching.

modelling and computer renderings but sketching is still so important for you to get your

If you're not good at sketching, that's totally fine. That's what practice is for. This is

something i learned in life drawing classes, it's that when you're just trying to learn,

don't go and try drawing the entire body. just try focusing on a small portion of it,

like the feet. so when you're at home, find an object that you find interesting and

You really don't need to be a perfect drawer or get all the perfect

little details. I think what's most important is just being able to express your ideas with

So personally, I like to figure out the spatial relationships and the basic massing on paper,

and then I move into 3d modelling fairly quickly, because it's, for me, the fastest way to iterate

through a bunch of different massing options.

A crucial thing to always keep in mind is, you think by doing. A lot

of students miss this. You'll get a project brief, and they spend way too much time trying

to figure out the initial concept, or come up with the initial parti. and when it's time

for the desk crit, they only have a few scribbles. The concept is something you develop

over the span of your project, and it evolves as you go through the design process.

So when you're thinking or designing, just sketch out a bunch of different iterations, try to overlay

of creating those things, you'll be able to see what works and what doesn't work and you can eliminate from there.

The modmin Youtube channel has some really great sketching tips, he also has a tutorial on rapid sketching,

Also, try to practice drawing some plans. You can start off my copying or tracing the

plans of some of the masters and just try to think about why they shaped the building a certain way,

what that does to the spaces and the movement or light conditions in those spaces, and what

that means to the overall concept of the building.

I would love to see your progress, so if you're drawing or sketching, follow me on Instagram

If you're struggling in the beginning in the beginning of school, don't even worry. I was a late

bloomer. I was terrible in school until second year. And if you're like me, you will have that one

project that will just ignite that fire in you. For me, it was a hydrotherapy pool. That project

really made me fall in love with architecture and the whole process

behind it. So yeah, just be patient, you will find that project too.

The second thing you can start working on right now, is all the digital tools.

when i was in school, we didn't have a dedicated course for learning all the programs, and

you were supposed to learn them on your own, so knowing how to use them right into

The most common ones are AutoCAD, SketchUp, Rhino, and Revit. I would say Sketchup is

probably the easiest for you to learn, and you can probably learn it in just

a week or two. with sketchup you can create whatever you want. Simple to more complex

geometries, and you can render them afterwards. I'll put together a playlist of Sketchup tutorials

Then I would say try to learn AutoCAD, that's the software where you draw your floorplans,

elevations and sections. it's an industry standard, so if you're looking to get a summer

job, this and Revit will be very helpful to have. It's a bit more complicated, but learning

all the functions and shortcuts, they're gonna will help you further down the line.

The third program is Rhino. Rhino is kind of like Sketchup but you can do more things

with it. If you only have time to learn one of them, I would say

Rhino. You can just create more complex geometries, and I know that some architects say that the

software is just an extension of your pencil, but i really think that the infinite amount

of 3d modelling possibilities in rhino has really helped me in the creative process, and it's helped

me design geometries that probably would have taken me a very long time to figure out by hand

or on AutoCAD. For example, this project,

I wanted to create a torquing motion throughout the building, and I just started with a few

sketch models, sketched out a few plans, and just moved straight into Rhino, because I

could quickly iterate through a bunch of options and geometries, and I knew it was gonna take me

There's actually tons of really great rhino tutorials on youtube, you can just search Rhino

Tutorials, and their channel will take you from step 1.

And then there's Revit. Revit is an industry standard. it's

what you call a BIM software. So basically to create a building you would draw an actual

wall in the category of a wall, rather than drawing in two lines or a geometry that represents

a wall, as you would do in AutoCAD or Rhino. Then you would put in a roof, in the category

of a roof. For example if you were to model these two exact same things in Rhino, Rhino would just treat

this as a geometry, but Revit understands that this is a wall, and that this is a roof, a window. Revit's

an industry standard so it's a really great skill to have if you want to work at an arch firm over

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