Sketching is an important tool to communicate your ideas across to your clients, faculties, juries,  etc. It is a crucial tool of visual communication to describe your design and the creative process.

In this Online course, you will learn to enhance your skills to visualise, analyze, and communicate your ideas through sketching. The course outlines the importance of Sketching as a skill, considering the following attributes: 

  1. Visualisation through Sketching (Visualise) 
  2. Analysis through Sketching (Analyse) 
  3. Communication through Sketching (Communicate) 

Thoughts and ideas that are carefully curated from global references and key aspects that delegates need to remember for each attribute, listed above, would be emphasised. Examples/references from the Mentor's studio, from ongoing and built work, will also be shared in this course.

Course Outcomes

  • Knowledge

    Enhance your understanding of the importance of sketching for architects and architects to be.

  • Skills

    Up-skill to Visualise, analyse and communicate through sketches.

  • Learn basic fundamentals

    Understanding of scale, proportion, expression, sensitivity, lateral thinking, exploratory ability and in confidence building.

Who should take this course?

  • School student interested in design

  • Students of Architecture and Design

  • Faculty of Architecture, especially faculty conducting the design studio.

  • Young Architect, who are in their first five years of their practise.

  • Anyone who is interested to take up a new skill

Mentor

Rahul Ajit Kadam

Architect

An Alumnus of BKPS College of Architecture, Pune, India, Ar. Rahul Kadam did his Masters from South Bank, London, and was a student member at AA, London, UK. He travelled extensively before beginning work with leading architects like Ar. Bimal Patel, Ar. Hasmukh Patel, Kamal Malik, and Ar. Karan Grover. He has been a Director & Regional Head at Edifice Consultants Pvt. Ltd for over 15 years. Since the last 5 years he has his own design firm The NGK Studio in Partnership with his wife Ar. Nandini RG Kadam. The ‘NGK Studio’, focus on a sensitive design approach and is working with prominent national and multinational clients. His quest for excellence has helped him be part of award-winning & published projects.

Course Schedule