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Archi-
doodle
The Architect’s Activity Book

Steve Bowkett

Laurence King Publishing

Various views of Clayton House,
Buckinghamshire, England.
Aldington Craig and Collinge, 1966
Introduction

This book is for anyone who is interested in architecture, particularly those of you About the author
who like to draw, doodle and dream about our built environment. It is organized around Steve Bowkett is passionate about good design. He has taught and practised architecture
a series of design drawing exercises that range from the amusing to the academic, from for over 25 years in numerous universities and colleges and is currently a senior lecturer at
the informative to the inspirational. The buildings and landscapes that I have selected to London South Bank University in the UK. He studied architecture at the Royal College of Art
draw should act as a stimulant for creative new architectural designs while also illustrating in London and the Polytechnic of Central London.
some of the concepts that underpin ‘modern’ architecture. Steve and his partner Jane have three daughters, Zoe, Sadie and Phoebe, and live in
While my drawings in this book are all monochrome, somewhat clean and executed Buckinghamshire, where Steve pursues a serendipitous life.
using a fine-line pen (for the sake of clarity), you are encouraged to experiment with a
variety of representational media in your renderings; pens, pencils, paint, charcoal, collage,
and so on. It is also my intention that you use the illustrations in the book to experiment
with colour, doodle around the edges and on top of the drawings, and of course draw in the
bigger spaces provided.
This is not a book about how to draw buildings – there are plenty of those to choose
from – but a book about what to draw, and it should be treated as a journal, sketchbook or
even as a primer for putting your portfolio together. Having said that, I have given the first
few pages over to some tips on basic tools and techniques to get you started.
I hope that this book will be useful and inspirational for architects, students, teachers,
parents and their children, but – most importantly – that it will be fun to work with.
Equipment
These are the basic tools that you might consider using in this book.

Fine-line pens
Paints Brushes
Eraser

Pencil sharpener

Graphite pencil

Coloured pencils Mechanical pencil

Scale rule

Set square
Rolling parallel rule Circle template
Techniques
This page shows a selection of the techniques that I have used to create the
drawings in this book. These simple skills will provide you with the means to build
texture and form, add shadow and increase density, and create a range of different
material effects.

Hatching Cross hatching

Stippling techniques

Selection of material effects: coral; sediment; grasses; gravel; foliage; vegetation; rippled water; surface texture
Plans, Sections, Elevations, Axonometric
These two pages show the convention of how an architectural orthographic drawing is made of a building. The drawing on
the far left is an axonometric drawing with a line showing where the cut is to be made to reveal the sectional drawing below
it. The drawing under the section is the side view or elevation of this building.
On the opposite page the axonometric has been cut to reveal the interior rooms of the upper floor of the building. The
two drawings below this are the corresponding roof plan and upper-floor plan.

Section A-A

Axonometric view

Casa Malaparte, Capri, Italy. Adalberto

Libera and Curzio Malaparte, 1940 Elevation
Axonometric cut to reveal interior

Roof plan

Upper-floor plan
These are currently the world’s tallest buildings.
Draw your version of a skyscraper for the new millennium.
Give it a name…

600m

450m

300m

150m

Burj Khalifa Freedom Tower Taipei 101 World Finance Center Petronas Towers
Dubai, UAE New York City, USA Taipei, Taiwan Shanghai, China Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia
828m (2,717ft) 541m (1,776ft) 508m (1,677ft) 492m (1,614ft) 452m (1,483ft)
 2,000ft

1,500ft

1,000ft

500ft

Empire State Building

New York City, USA
443m (1,453ft)
The Sony Tower has a famous roof, a ‘Chippendale Tallboy’
classical pediment top. This iconic skyscraper needs a new image and a new top.
Look at other design objects such as furniture to influence the form. Add to some of these other iconic skyscrapers
with memorable rooftops...

AT&T Building, New York,

USA. Philip Johnson and John
Burgee, 1984
Al Hamra Tower, Kuwait City. S.O.M. 2011; Chrysler Building,
NYC. William Van Alen, 1930; Empire State Building, NYC. Shreve,
Lamb and Harmon, 1931; The Shard, London. Renzo Piano, 2012.
Complete the drawings of the following famous buildings.

The Taj Mahal, Agra, India.

Ustad Ahmad Lahauri, 1653
The Eiffel Tower, Paris, France.
Gustave Eiffel, 1889
Cities beneath our great oceans may well provide a new way
of living in the future. The structure below was influenced by the shape of coral.

Design your own underwater community in the space provided...

Here are a variety of different bridge designs.
Use their structural principles to help you design a new bridge to
expand this town across the sea...

Truss bridge Cantilever bridge Suspension bridge

Cable-stayed bridge Arch bridge Lenticular-truss bridge

Create a bridge over a wide river...
And over a highway...
In Dubai they have created a series of new islands along the coastline.

Design your own new island community...

Palm Islands, man-made archipelago,

Dubai, UAE. Conceived by Sheikh
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum,
developed by Nakheel Properties, 2003-08
‘The architect of the future will build imitating Nature’
— Antonio Gaudí
Design the external envelope of a building that resembles
something found in nature...

Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain.

Antonio Gaudí/Josep Maria Jujol, 1906
Plan drawing
Here are six examples of how the same room can be altered to manipulate light
and space using different forms of window opening.

Use the same interior room proportion to draw your own ideas...
Theis and Khan designed a new sacred space while converting a
London church, using the concept of a beam of light pouring through the roof.

Using the shell of the existing building, design and draw an idea
for a new space using light to generate the form...

Lumin United Reform Church, London, England.

Theis and Khan Architects, 2008

Section showing the walls of the ‘light beam’

and the space within
When designing the roof of a building here are a variety
of forms to consider.

Dome Conical Dome Flat Dome Inverted Dome Vaulted

Barrel Vault Multiple Barrel Hyperbolic Saddle Hyperbolic Paraboloid

Gable End Hipped Pyramidal Mansard Folded Plate

Monopitched Scissor Monopitched Bow Butterfly Saw Toothed

Flat Lantern Stepped Perforated Tensile

Can you come up with some other roof types?
The Sydney Opera House is dominated by its shell-
like roof structure sitting on a large raised podium. Design your own roof, considering
how the interior acoustics of the building might influence the external roof shape.

Design a roof form that could be

supported by this podium...

The Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia. Jørn Utzon, 1973

Characterized by their symbolic roof forms,
representing equilibrium and balance, the civic buildings for Brazil’s new capital
Brasília were designed by Oscar Niemeyer.

Make other suggestions of roof forms that would symbolize

Brazilian progress in the 21st century. ...

The Brazilian National Congress Building, Brasília.

Oscar Neimeyer, 1964
Austrian architectural group Coop Himmelb(l)au often begin projects
with an intuitive sketch that they describe as ‘draw(ing] with one’s eyes closed’, akin to the ‘automatic
drawing’ practised by Dadaists and Surrealists. This rooftop extension is an example of this method.

Make your own ‘automatic drawing’ and use it to generate the plan
or section of a building. You may need to make a sketch model first...

Intuitive sketch

Falkestrasse rooftop renovation, Vienna,

Austria. Coop Himmelb(l)au, 1988
Plan drawing
Populating planets has long been a dream of
man as he has explored the outer reaches of space.

Design a new zero-gravity community for the surface of Titan...

The De Stijl (the Style) movement in the Netherlands began in 1917, its work
characterized by abstract composition and strong primary colours. The most famous
exponents of De Stijl were Piet Mondrian, Gerrit Rietveld and Theo van Doesburg. Design a kiosk to sell the De Stijl magazine and express
the spirit of the movement...

Drawing of the typeface

created by van Doesburg
for the De Stijl magazine

The Red Blue Chair,

Gerrit Rietveld, 1917

The Schröder House, Utrecht,

Netherlands. Gerrit Rietveld, 1924

Composition in the
style of Piet Mondrian
Design for a Kiosk,
Lajos Kassák, 1923
Many architects have designed very distinctive and important chairs
using lots of different shapes and sizes.

LC4 Chaise Lounge, Le Corbusier, 1929

Why don’t you have a go at designing a chair...

Little Beaver Chair, Frank O. Gehry, 1980

Hill House Chair, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1903 Series 7 Chair, Arne Jacobsen, 1955
Zig Zag Chair, Gerrit Rietveld, 1934
...you may also consider a design for seating
for more than one person.

Monte Carlo Sofa, Eileen Gray, 1929

Mae West Lips Sofa, Salvador Dalí, 1937

Moon System sofa, Zaha Hadid, 2007

Pantower, Verner Panton, 1969

Here are a variety of things to consider when designing a window
and its opening.

Window position within Window to wall proportion Window profile Location of frame Shape of opening
the wall
Can you suggest any more variations?
Each of these buildings has a different attitude to window design:
projecting bay, window wall, free-form hole.

Suggest some other types of window openings...

Maison de Verre, Paris,

France. Pierre Chareau and
Bernard Bijvoet, 1932

Glasgow School of Art,

Scotland. Charles Rennie
Mackintosh, 1909
The Public arts building,
West Midlands, England.
Will Alsop, 2008
Different types and shapes of window make up the façade of this
building: recessed (circular), flush (oblong), projecting (square) and clerestory (below the roofline; horizontal).

Using the same exterior wall, experiment with your own

composition of windows and openings...

Banca Popolare di Verona, Italy. Carlo Scarpa, 1973

These innovative beach huts were created for a competition to Considering seaside themes, what would your
competition entry look like...
‘Re-imagine the Beach Hut for the 21st Century’.

‘Eyes Wide sHut’, Feix&Merlin

‘Alien Drum Sensorium’, Alasdair Toozer,

Gareth Hoskins Architects

‘Come Up and See Me’, Michael Trainor ‘Lattice Hut’, Andrew Siddall, Civic Architects
‘Cheese 42’, Christian
Uhl Architekt
Here is a street that is in desperate need of ‘greening’. Use some of
the elements below to improve it.

Solar panels

Wind turbines and wind scoops

Green walls
Trees and shrubs Bicycles and footpaths

Allotments

Reed beds and watercourses Vertical farms

Greenhouses
These buildings have all used recycled materials Manifesto House, (timber pallets), Curacaví,
Chile. James & Mau for Infiniski, 2009
to construct the fabric of the building.

‘Pavilion of Temporary Happiness’

(33,000 beer crates), Brussels, Belgium.
SHSH Architecture/V+, 2008

Sketch out the design of a simple house or pavilion using waste products...

Lucy’s House (27,000 stacked carpet tiles), Alabama,

USA. Samuel Mockbee, Rural Studio, 1997
Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple (1.5 million
beer bottles), Sisaket province, Thailand.
The Bauhaus school of design, founded in Germany in 1919, took a
radical approach to the combined teaching of craft and design with the ambition of
creating a new unity between art and technology. They explored the new techniques
of industrialization through simple geometric forms.
Create your own sculptural form using a combination
of circles, triangles and squares...

Wassily Chair, Marcel

Breuer, 1926

Drawing of prototype Bauhaus

font created by Herbert Bayer,
Dessau Bauhaus, 1925

Bauhaus Building, Dessau, Germany.

Walter Gropius, 1926
Monument to the March Dead, Weimar,
Germany. Walter Gropius, 1922
Here are a various wall structures.

Thin Plane Battered Close Column Mass Masonry

Thick Plane Stepped Log Wall Frame Timber

Honeycomb Parallel Plane Fabric Skin In Fill Concrete

Buttress Panel Pneumatic Air Layered Glass

Crenulated Corrugated Plastic Woven Metal

 Design some walls of your own, taking into
consideration their construction and material...
Sculptural curvilinear walls of different thickness, topped off
with a heavy overhanging roof, characterize the design of the Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut.

Make some sketches of a small chapel which is designed

using a variety of wall thicknesses...

The Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp,

France. Le Corbusier, 1954
 ‘A House is a Machine for Living in’
— Le Corbusier

Design and draw the sectional view of a house

that has been influenced by a machine...

The Villa Savoye, Poissy, France. Le Corbusier, 1930

The five columns shown here represent the principal orders of classical
architecture – Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite.

Design your own column...

‘The Sixth Order or The End of
Architecture’, Leon Krier, 1977
 Here are some contemporary columns that
articulate how the load is transferred from the roof to the base. Try some for yourself.

Johnson Wax Administration Building, Wisconsin, USA.

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1939
Stansted Airport, London, England. Foster+Partners, 1991
 These examples show columns and beams
expressed as one element. What ideas can you develop?

Exhibition Hall, Turin, Italy. Pier Luigi Nervi, 1949

L’Umbracle, Valencia, Spain. Santiago Calatrava, 1998
This copy of a comparative study of how one might resolve a corner house
was drawn by the Luxembourgian architect Rob Krier.

See how many more variations you can add to the 24 shown here...
Kinetic buildings 1: The Sliding House by dRMM
Architects has a timber skin that can be slid off to reveal a transparent layer
underneath. This skin is on tracks, powered by PV solar panels, and can be
moved to enjoy maximum sunlight and then retracted to retain the heat.

Design a simple structure that interacts with the sun...

Sliding House, Suffolk, England. dRMM Architects, 2009

Kinetic buildings 2: Here is an example of a building
that is ‘in a state of permanent transformation’. Its concept is that of a simple timber
box that folds open and reveals its interior. The ‘GucklHupf’ is used as a contemplative
space as well as a place for musical performances and poetry readings.

Design your own performance space using the same

principles of hinging and folding...

GucklHupf, Mondsee, Austria. Hans Peter Wörndl, 1993

Plan drawings
The Triangular Lodge is a folly, and its design was
a reflection of the architect’s Roman Catholic faith, the number three symbolizing the
Holy Trinity. This number is expressed throughout; there are three floors, three trefoil
windows, three triangular gables on each side, a triangular plan, and so on.

Design your own folly based around a number, pattern,

shape or proportional system...

The Triangular Lodge, Northampton, England.

Sir Thomas Tresham, 1597
Plan drawing
The design of one of the largest parks in Paris has many follies laid out
in a grid. The 35 follies were the architect’s device for organizing and orientating
visitors within the landscape. The follies were designed in the form of partly open red
frameworks, waiting for both functions and events to inhabit the spaces within.

Design a modern folly using a framed grid as a starting point...

Parc de la Villette, Paris, France.

Bernard Tschumi, 1987
Here are some examples of unusual tree houses.
Draw the rest of the forest and locate the design of your tree house within it...

Ecocoons, Mathieu Collos, 2009

Takasugi-an Tea House, Japan.

Terunobu Fujimori, 2004

Yellow Treehouse, Auckland, New Zealand. Pacific Environments Architects, 2009

This surreal house in Oxford, England, has a 7.5m (25ft)-
long fake shark embedded in its roof. It was erected in 1986 on the anniversary of the
dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

Draw some other surreal images of conventional buildings where

an event has taken place – maybe even your own house...

‘The Headington Shark’ sculpture,

John Buckley, 1986
The Airplane Hotel, Costa Rica,
Costa Verde, 2010
Your wealthy client wants to build a house on his private island
but he’s not sure where to build it. Think about what would be a good view, and which
direction the sun and wind come from.
Design a house on a cliff...
and by a waterfall...
Draw a house by a river...
or in the mountains...
The Constructivist movement emerged in Russia after
the 1917 Revolution. Its aim was to create an aesthetic that reflected the new
industrial power of the country. Monuments like the ‘Tatlin Tower’ were designed
using steel to celebrate 20th-century industrialization.
Design a new monument for the 21st century using
materials and forms that reflect current ideas...

Suprematist Composition,
Kazimir Malevich, 1916

The Monument to the Third International,

Vladimir Tatlin, 1919

Architectural Machines,
Yakov Chernikhov, 1931
Lenin Tribune, El Lissitzsky, 1920
Complete the drawings of the following iconic buildings...

St Paul’s Cathedral, London,

England. Sir Christopher Wren, 1710
Parthenon, Athens, Greece.
Iktinos and Kallikrates, 432bc
The idea of ‘servant’ and ‘served’ spaces in
buildings was developed by the American architect Louis Kahn in the 1950s.
Kahn studied Scottish castles, discovering that minor spaces – stairs and areas Colour in the servant spaces on these plans of four buildings by Louis
Kahn. Try to identify ‘servant’ and ‘served’ spaces in other buildings...
for cooking and washing, etc. – were contained within the walls and were like
servants to the major communal ‘served’ areas.
Trenton Bath House, 1955 Yale Center for British Art, 1974

Esherick House, 1961

Phillips Exeter Academy Library, 1971
Many famous architects wear glasses.

Design a new piece of face furniture for yourself.

Cut them out, mount them on card and wear them before
taking on the next task...
You have been appointed to design a ‘new look’
for Buckingham Palace, the London residence of the Queen of England.

Using this outline drawing as a background, create your new design...

Buckingham Palace, The City of Westminster,

England. John Nash, 1820s
Buildings are either a duck or decorated shed
according to architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour in their 1972
book Learning from Las Vegas. A ‘duck’ (named after a duck-shaped building that sold eggs
in New York) is a building whose form tells us what its purpose is. A ‘decorated shed’, on the Draw your own ‘duck’ and ‘decorated shed’ buildings,
other hand, is generic in shape and can only be identified by its signage and decoration. indicating what they are by shape or by the use of signage...

The Big Duck, Flanders, New York,

USA, 1931

The Golden Nugget Casino, Las Vegas, USA, 1946

Copy of a sketch ‘I am a Monument’,
by Venturi and Scott Brown, 1972
Modern sports stadia provide good examples of a ‘Duck’ or
‘Decorated Shed’. However, sometimes they can be read as both. So are the stadia
shown here ‘ducks’ or ‘decorated sheds’ or both?

Sketch some ideas for a sports stadium with this notion in mind...

National Stadium (known as the ‘Bird’s Nest’), Beijing, China.

Herzog and de Meuron, 2008

Stadio San Nicola, Bari, Italy.

Renzo Piano, 1990

Proposed National Stadium, Japan,

Zaha Hadid, 2019
Allianz Arena, Munich, Germany.
Herzog and de Meuron, 2005
‘Less is More’
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Design your own minimal house...

The Farnsworth House, Piano, Illinois.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1951
Plan drawing
Here is the plan of a house for the Berlin Building Exhibition
designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich in 1931.

Using the drawing key of furniture and utilities, mark on the plan
the spaces where you would like to cook, eat, wash, sleep, study and relax...
 sofa armchairs table

piano

dining table sideboard

double bed single bed dresser closets

sink unit hob cupboard

refrigerator kitchen unit

WC & bidet bathtub shower sinks

utilities sink washer/dryer boiler

Here are some examples of curvilinear stairs.

Casa dels Ous, Torre de la Creu, Spain.

Josep Maria Jujol, 1916

Hotel Josef, Prague, Czech Republic.

Eva Jiricna, 2002

Sketch some ideas for a stair which articulates

circles and curves within the design...
Louvre Pyramid, Paris, France.
I.M. Pei, 1989
These innovative stairs were designed for a London house
and incorporate a bench next to the entrance and storage leading to a bed platform.

Town House, London, England.

Tankard Bowkett, 2001

Sketch your own ideas for these two spaces...

This display staircase appears to float within the space
and provides a centre point for exhibiting artefacts in the Olivetti Showroom in Venice. How would you design a stair for this space
leading up the first-floor mezzanine?

Olivetti Showroom Staircase, Venice, Italy. Carlo Scarpa, 1958.

Atelier Bow-Wow Architects coined the term ‘pet architecture’
for small buildings built in the left over spaces next to big buildings. If this building, known
as ‘the Gherkin’, had a pet, would it be shaped like a pastrami sandwich? Or a mustard pot?

Choose a well-known building and design a ‘pet’ for it...

30 St Mary Axe (the ‘Gherkin’), London,

England. Norman Foster, 2003
In 2004, architects Tonkin Liu designed and built a hill-top sound
sculpture overlooking the town of Burnley in Lancashire, England. Their interactive
design, the ‘Singing Ringing Tree’, was named after the Brothers Grimm folk story.

Design a sculptural form that interacts with the elements and

think of a suitable title for it...

Plan drawing of the sculpture

Fluid and dynamic sketching is a style developed by the German Expressionist architect
Erich Mendelsohn. The sketch drawings of the Einstein Tower on the left show how the building form evolved.

Make some development sketches of a small tower of

your own using a brush, ink and drawing pens...

The Einstein Tower, Potsdam,

Germany. Erich Mendelsohn, 1921
These are all examples of buildings with unusual chimneys.

Daneshill Brick and Tile

Company, Hampshire, England.
Sir Edwin Lutyens, 1903 Design a funky-looking chimney...

Das Heizhaus, Switzerland. Rudolf Steiner, 1914

Casa Milà, Barcelona, Spain. Antonio Gaudí, 1912

Palau Güell, Barcelona, Spain.
Antonio Gaudí, 1890
The Borneo-Sporenburg housing development in
Amsterdam, conceived of by West 8 Architects, invited a number of architects to Using the gaps provided, design and draw your ideas for
design terraced houses within a 5m (16ft)-wide and 12m (39ft)-long plot. the façades of new houses facing the canal...
This spiral-shaped house, designed by the
American architect Bruce Goff, is a dwelling that brings plants, pools and the
surrounding countryside into the interior.

Design a house based upon a spiral form...

Bavinger House, Oklahoma, USA. Bruce Goff, 1955

The entrance is a major consideration when designing a building. This
threshold not only provides a way into an interior space but can also signify shelter,
security, function, importance and opulence.

Schullin Jewellery Shop, Vienna,

Austria. Hans Hollein, 1974

Sketch and design a new entrance for a building near you...

Castel Béranger, Paris, France.

Hector Guimard, 1898

Vanna Venturi House, Penn, USA.

Robert Venturi, 1964.
Petting Farm, Almere, the Netherlands.
70F Architecture, 2008
When designing a door handle, careful consideration should be
given to comfort, material, strength and style.

Art Nouveau door handle

and letterbox, Brussels

Walter Gropius

Sketch a variety of door handle designs for different situations...

Alvar Aalto

Alvar Aalto

Zaha Hadid
Peter Zumthor
Many architects have dedicated their time to designing buildings for animals.
Choose a creature from the animal kingdom and
design a new dwelling for them...
The Penguin Pool, London Zoo, London. Berthold Lubetkin’s
Tecton Architectural Group, 1934

Gut Garkau Farm, Germany. Hugo Häring, 1926

The Savannah House, Rotterdam Zoo,

the Netherlands. LAM Architects, 2009
The Snowdon Aviary, London Zoo,
England. Cedric Price, Frank Newby
and Anthony Armstrong Jones, 1964
This square house was designed by American architect
Charles Moore for himself. Made from timber, its design is based upon a series of
squares within squares.

Design a small holiday home based upon square geometry...

Moore House, California, USA.

Charles Moore, 1962
Architects have always been fascinated by exploring rhythm and repetition within the
design of their buildings. These two examples of libraries by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto show how he changed the geometry
between the fan-shaped reading areas and the rectilinear administration areas.

Sketch out some ideas for a small public library and show
how you would exploit this principle....

Rovaniemi Library, Finland.

Alvar Aalto, 1965

Administrative areas

Reading areas

Administrative areas

Reading areas

Seinäjoki Library, Finland.

Alvar Aalto, 1963
Diagram showing principles
of rhythm and repetition
Imagine if the owners of the Pompidou Centre in Paris
decided that many of the building’s famous exposed services were not required
anymore. What should they put in their place?
Overdraw your ideas in the space provided...

Pompidou Centre, Paris, France. Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, 1977
The form of many modern museums often express the
buildings’ content. The two examples here express two very different ideas: one is a
work inspired by both sculpture and the surrounding former-shipyard area; the other
is a powerful expression of the Jewish people’s historical struggle.

The Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany.

Daniel Libeskind, 2001

The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain. Decide on a theme for a museum and sketch some architectural
Frank O. Gehry, 1997 forms that you feel best express the spirit of your proposal...
This mobile Classroom of the Future was
designed by Gollifer Langston Architects in 2007. It can be transported by lorry from
one location to another and provides workstations and audio/visual equipment.

Design a mobile educational unit that would fit on a standard truck...

Classroom of the Future, London, England. Gollifer

Langston Architects, 2007
Here is a selection of designs for dogs by different
architects that will alter the way that the owners interact with their pets.

‘Paramount’ mirror for a

poodle by Konstantin Grcic

‘Pointed T’ suspended cone to house a Japanese

terrier by the Hara Design Institute

Draw some ideas for other domestic animals, such

as this cat basket that hangs on a radiator...

Ramp for daschund by Atelier Bow-Wow Rocking kennel for a beagle by MVRDV
This prototype circular house used mass-produced aircraft
technology and materials combined with an innovative rotating-roof ventilation system.

Design a house with a plan based on a circle...

Wichita House, Kansas, USA. Buckminster Fuller, 1947

Diagram showing airflow due to roof
ventilation system
Incorporating water into the design of an
environment can have both a dramatic and a calming effect.

Sketch a place that you know, a garden or interior or even a public place, and
design a new water feature within it...

Church on the Water, Tomamu, Japan. Tadao Ando, 1988

Private Residence, London, England. Garden of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy.
Tankard Bowkett, 2007 Carlo Scarpa, 1963
Fuente de los Amantes, Mexico.
Luis Barragán, 1966
Frank Lloyd Wright described his work as ‘organic’ architecture, Choose a particular location and, using ‘organic’
principles, sketch the design of a house that is integrated
‘where the whole is (to) the part, what the part is to the whole.’ His Fallingwater house completely
within its context...
integrated the surrounding landscape as part of the environment of the house.

Fallingwater, Pennsylvania, USA.

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1939
Aerial view
This is a sectional drawing of a hotel/spa that
has been cut into the mountain over a thermal spring. The quartzite stone of
the mountain is used to form the structure.
Using the same mountain slope, design in section the arrangement of
a small thermal bath house. Consider views, light and privacy...

The Therme Vals, Switzerland.

Peter Zumthor, 1996
Breaking down the threshold between the street and gallery is
the aim of this Storefront for Art and Architecture façade.
Sketch your proposal for a new design, with
particular attention to the entrance...

The Storefront for Art and Architecture,

New York, USA. Stephen Holl and Vito
Acconci, 1993
Our major cities of the future are becoming taller,
denser and a mixture of different styles and forms. This drawing of an imagined city
is constructed using a variety of sampled projects and made-up forms and designs. Complete the city panorama with your vision of the future.
Once completed give this city a name...
You’ve completed the book and won the award for Architect of the Year!

Design an award that you would be happy to receive...

Academy Award statuette (‘Oscar’); The Pritzker Architecture Prize;

BAFTA Award; FIFA World Cup Trophy
Credits & acknowledgements

All of the drawings in the book have been created by the author especially for this The author would like to give many thanks to Jane Tankard for all of her encouragement,
publication; some are based on the original drawings of architects and artists, and we inspiration and time spent giving feedback. Also thanks to Philip Cooper, Gaynor Sermon
are pleased to credit these below. In all cases, every effort has been made to credit the and the team at Laurence King Publishing for their help, support and editorial dedication,
copyright holder, but should there be any omissions or errors the Publisher would be and to Matt Cox at Newman and Eastwood for designing the book.
pleased to insert the appropriate acknowledgement in subsequent editions of this book.

Sketch of Falkestrasse rooftop renovation by Coop Himmelb(l)au, 1988

Typeface by Theo van Doesburg
Mae West Lips Sofa, Salvador Dalí, 1937 © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí,
DACS, 2013
Prototype Bauhaus font by Herbert Bayer, Dessau Bauhaus, 1925 © DACS 2013
Plan of The Chapel of Note Dame du Haut by Le Corbusier, 1954 © ADAGP, Paris
and DACS, London 2013
‘The Sixth Order or The End of Architecture’ by Leon Krier
Comparative study of corner houses by Rob Krier
‘Architectural Machines’ by Yakov Chernikhov, 1931
Suprematist Composition by Kazimir Malevich, 1916
Lenin Tribune by El Lissitzsky, 1920
‘I am a Monument’ by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, 1972
Sketch of proposed National Stadium, Japan by Zaha Hadid, 2019
Plan of The Farnsworth House by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1951 © DACS 2013
Plan of the Berlin Building Exhibition by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich,
1931 © DACS 2013.
Sketches of The Einstein Tower by Erich Mendelsohn, 1921
Plan of Gut Garkau Farm by Hugo Häring, 1926 © DACS 2013
Plan of The Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, by Stephen Holl and
Vito Acconci, 1993 © ARS, NY and DACS, London 2013 (Acconci only)