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thea mihu sketchbook

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An essential aspect of this booklet is the importance of freehand drawing as a first step towards an architectural impulse. The drawings are not meant to be pretty or alined with any given architectural drawing standard, but rather expressive and a visual carrier of thvat first idea. I have often heared from fellow collegues and students that their design methodology is free from any analogue technique. While embrassing the power of digital innovation in the field of architecture as an instrument for a more effective outcome, this booklet is set to show a variety of drawing speculations, often unfinished and raw, in order to emphasize not precision - as computer masters do, but rather investigations of the build and unbuild environment as opposed to illustrations.

Introduction

Drawings and tracings are like the hands of the blind touching the surfaces of the face in order to understand the sense of volume, depth and penetration. 3

drawing editor ... in the digital age architectural sketches gain a new value. Often they serve as proof of creative independence from the machine and are stylized accordingly. ...im Zeitalter des Computers gewinnen architektonische Skizzen einen neuen Stellenwert.

Häufig diesen sie als Beweis der schÜpferischen Unabhängigkeit von der Maschine und werden dementsprechend stilisiert.

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1 - Pla-Narbona, Joseph; artist 2 - Nerdinger, Winfried; Dinner for Architects, 2003 3 - Hejduk, John, Thoughts of an Architect, 1986

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contents A learning process 2008 - 2018

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Introduction the whole spirit, the whole essence of the project, is in the sketch.

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1. Freehand drawings | Sketches | Geometry Exercise 1.1 Personal Sketches 1.2 Drawing by memory 1.3 Drawing within a time limit 1.4 Studio related Sketches 1.5 Axonometry | Perspective Calculation | Geometry Exercise

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2. Hybrid Drawings - Rendering on the move Method : Analog and Digital

freehand drawings digital software

used software: Adobe Creative Suite, iPhone Applications Awa r d s: Ar c h Da ily Sel ecti on for B est D raw i ng of the Year 2017

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3. Digital Drawings Used Software: Allplan Vectorworks, Adobe Photoshop,

Adobe Illustrator

studio related renderings and diagramms

Univ er s it y of St u t t g a r t 2 0 1 3 - 2 0 1 8

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Drawings are expressions of one’s striving to reach the spirit of architecture.

Kahn, Louis

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1. Freehand drawings | Sketches | Geometry Exercise 1.1 Personal Sketches Drawing by memory Drawing within a time limit 1.2 Studio related Sketches 1.3 Axonometry | Perspective Calculation | Geometry Exercise

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personal sketch - MAK Museum, The Happy Show by S. Sagmeister Vienna, 2016

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personal sketch - MAK Museum, The Happy Show by S. Sagmeister Vienna, 2016

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Studio Sketch SI - University Stuttgart Sarajevo HighRise, 2013

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Studio Sketch SI - University Stuttgart NeckarCity, 2015

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Studies on Kerez, C.; One Wall House Stuttgart, 2013

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personal sketch Vama Veche, 2011 drawing by memory

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personal sketch Hamburg, 2017 drawing by memory

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Drawing a building is a way of remembering it properly. To draw you have to look very hard and I think it is in the looking itself that the building is impressed upon the mind. Often I measure it and make a plan, putting the dimensions on the drawing, because I know from experience that only by doing that can I understand what I’m looking at.

Caroline Mauduit, An Architect in Italy

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personal sketch Venice, 2016, Teatro del Mondo, arh. Aldo Rossi

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personal sketch Stuttgart, 2014 urbanism project

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identity Vama Veche, 2011

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identity Vama Veche, 2011

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Teatro del Mondo, arh. Aldo Rossi Venice, 2016 drawing by memory

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Vienna, 2015

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Vienna, 2015

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Auditorium UAUIM Bucharest, 2010 - aquarell on watercolour paper

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UAUIM - napkin Sketch Bucharest, 2010 - aquarell on paper napkin

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proportion studies Vitra Design Vienna, 2015 - pencil on paper

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workshop sketches architecture highlights proportion studies Stuttgart, 2013 - pencil on paper

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1. Freehand drawings | Sketches | Geometry Exercise 1.1 Personal Sketches Drawing by memory Drawing within a time limit 1.2 Studio related Sketches 1.3 Axonometry | Perspective Calculation | Geometry Exercise

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UAUIM freehand drawings plans and sections Bucharest, 2010 - 2012

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The value of uncompleted things is very strong...

If the spirit is there and can be recorded, what is lost? The drawing is important, the incomplete scheme is important, if it has a central gravitational force which makes the arrangement not just an arrangement but something which gives a richness to the associations which are lost.

Recording of that which has not been done must be made much of.

Louis Kahn, 1973

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netWORK - ILEK Studio Stuttgart, 2018 - liner on paper

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Kontekst Zakopane Stuttgart, 2016 - pencil on paper

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IRGE- House of Daniel Craig Design Studio Stuttgart, 2014 - pencil on paper

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120h architecture student competition Vienna, 2015 - pencil on paper

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IWE-Designing Residential Building Stuttgart, 2014 - pencil and liner on paper

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Kontekst Zakopane, ILEK-Studio Stuttgart, 2016 - pencil and liner on paper

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IRGE - House of Daniel Craig Studying Zumthor, Peter Stuttgart, 2013 - acuarel on paper | pastel | pencil

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IRGE - House of Daniel Craig Studying Zumthor, Peter Stuttgart, 2013 - pencil on paper

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IRGE - House of Daniel Craig Studying Zumthor, Peter Stuttgart, 2013 - acuarel on paper | pastel | pencil

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IRGE - House of Daniel Craig Studying Zumthor, Peter Stuttgart, 2013 - acuarel on paper | pastel | pencil

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IRGE - House of Daniel Craig concept sketches Stuttgart, 2013 - pencil on paper

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untitled Sibiu, 1997 - coloured pencil on paper

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untitled Sibiu, 1999 - coloured pencil on paper

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8h drawing exam on a given subject Bucharest, 2010 - pastel on paper

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1. Freehand drawings | Sketches | Geometry Exercise 1.1 Personal Sketches Drawing by memory Drawing within a time limit 1.2 Studio related Sketches 1.3 Axonometry | Perspective Calculation | Geometry Exercise

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intense drawing course UAUIM admission exam 2010 Bucharest, 2008-2010

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intense drawing course UAUIM admission exam 2010 Bucharest, 2008-2010

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intense drawing course UAUIM admission exam 2010 Bucharest, 2008-2010

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intense drawing course UAUIM admission exam 2010 Bucharest, 2008-2010

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intense drawing course UAUIM admission exam 2010 Bucharest, 2008-2010

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intense drawing course UAUIM admission exam 2010 Bucharest, 2008-2010

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intense drawing course UAUIM admission exam 2010 Bucharest, 2008-2010

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intense drawing course UAUIM admission exam 2010 Bucharest, 2008-2010

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intense drawing course UAUIM admission exam 2010 Bucharest, 2008-2010

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intense drawing course UAUIM admission exam 2010 remembering architectural landmarks Bucharest, 2008-2010

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1st. semester traditional romanian building survey Bucharest, 2010

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1st. semester traditional romanian building survey Bucharest, 2010

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1st. semester traiditional romanian building survey Bucharest, 2010

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intense drawing course descriptive geometry exercises Bucharest, 2009

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intense drawing course collusion of geometric volumes Bucharest, 2008

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intense drawing course collusion of geometric volumes Bucharest, 2008

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intense drawing course axonometry of a church canopy Bucharest, 2009

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intense drawing course collusion of geometric volumes Bucharest, 2010

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intense drawing course determining 2D-shadows on a volumetric ensemble Bucharest, 2010

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UAUIM perspective measurement Bucharest, 2010

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intense drawing course UAUIM admission exam 2010 Bucharest, 2008-2010

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intense drawing course traditional romanian houses Bucharest, 2008-2010

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intense drawing course traditional romanian houses Bucharest, 2008-2010

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intense drawing course Bucharest, 2008-2010

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intense drawing course UAUIM admission exam 2010 Bucharest, 2008-2010

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2. Hybrid Drawings - Rendering on the move Method : Analog and Digital

hand drawings digital software

used software: Adobe Creative Suite, iPhone Applications Aw ards : A r c h D a i l y S e l e c t i o n fo r Be st Dr a win g o f th e Y e a r 2 0 17

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personal rendering Curated for ArchDaily Best Drawings of the Year 2017 on the metro, 2017

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personal rendering on the metro, 2017

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ArchDaily EasterEgg Design Competition on the metro, 2017

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ArchDaily EasterEgg Design Competition on the metro, 2017

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ArchDaily EasterEgg Design Competition on the metro, 2017

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Architectural Review #NotopiaCampaign Design Competition 2016

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Adobe Illustrator

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U niversit y o f Stu ttga rt 20 13 - 2018

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netWORK Studio project Stuttgart, 2018

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netWORK Studio project Stuttgart, 2018

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netWORK Studio project Stuttgart, 2018

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Zakopane Studio Project curated and published on the digital platform of Architectural Review Stuttgart, 2017

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Kontekst Zakopane Studio project Stuttgart, 2016

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joy

SIbiu, 1995

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