Students document architecture through sketching

Our visit to Belvedere Gardens is part of their foundation design studio and we teach them a lot of skills in the first semester and one of them is sketching and how to see architecture, how to observe architecture and document architecture in a way that they can take it back and have it influence their work. Part of it is looking at how things come together, the material. I was immediately drawn to this structure right here it's almost this like wave structure and then it has these walls coming out and all these lines the perspective lines kind of shoot towards each other but it creates such an interesting shape and it's very dynamic. It's very rewarding in a way just sitting down and sketching for a little bit and then once you're done and looking at what you sketch I think this is probably the most important part of the whole experience is just getting out and drawing my favorite part of this area is that you can really feel why they've built the building the inside is very secluded and I feel like that was intentional going on field trips like this like helps me better understand like what Catherine's teaching us and like what she wants us to see as an architect it really makes me more excited for the future because I I really want to go on more field trips like this and like be able to take the scenery of the building and like sketch stuff and like talk with like my peers about it. We start out trying to establish the language of architecture so we start talking about ordering systems then we look at parts to whole relationships and we look at hierarchy so every time you ask the same questions about a different subject it enriches your learning.