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A House of Mies’s Knowledge is a submission for a competition titled ‘Mies Memorial library’ by Arkitekuturo. The main challenge of the competition was to design a library that not only preserves the works of one of the founding fathers of modern architecture, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, but to celebrate his life, contributions, and works.

Observational sketches and quick conceptual sketching is very important in the design process; it allows you to quickly draw ideas, concepts, site sections and views, allowing you to kick start your creative brain and get straight into the design process.

There is a multitude of software to learn as an architecture student, graduate and professional. There's no time like the present to build your skills and find a tool that works best for you. Although the usual software as Sketchup and AutoCAD, not to mention Revit as the professional standard, one software we don't hear much of is ArchiCAD.

Adding textures in Photoshop doesn't need to be a long, complicated process. In fact, it's a simple case of image manipulation.

Learning new skills is the best thing you can do as a student or graduate. Skill-building isn't just about taking a new course or trying something well outside of your comfort zone.

Massing diagrams don't need to be complicated or take a long time to put together. In this week's post, guest author Ellie takes us through her workflow from thinking about the programme all the way down to finishing touches and exporting your diagrams.

I know so many of you have been waiting for a 3D sun path diagram since our first tutorial on a regular, simple sun path - which by the way is to this date our most popular article ever!