The Sketch Book

The Sketch Book was a gift that Rafael gave our class so that we could sketch during class but it was mostly intended to sketch when we would go to fieldtrips. In every field trip we had to sketch at least 5 buildings but we never got to visit all the buildings and the times we did we would get back to school late.

            I enjoyed sketching a lot because it was a way for me to interpret what it was that I saw and how it is that I saw it. Sketching made me feel free and made me feel like I was transparent because I would sketch what I would be looking at and everything that was around me would be invisible. I think this is so because when one is concentrating they need peace and my peace was making me transparent.

            We had a lot of competitions about who would have the best drawings and Kidus would always have the best drawings but there were others that were great as well. The competitions were to recognize the one who envisioned with detail the building.

            Overall, I think that the sketchbook was really the hit for this semester because we didn’t have the sketchbook last semester and this semester was great to have it and to be sketching all the time. Sketching in an architecture class made the class feel more like an architecture class because aside from the teacher having teaching us about architecture, we, ourselves would teach by sketching about everything we have learned and applied it to the building we would sketch.

Thanks Rafael for the Sketch Books!