Description

Sketching for Architecture + Interior Design is a practical and accessible guide designed to help architecture and interior design students develop confident freehand sketching skills.

While many students today are highly skilled in digital tools, the ability to sketch by hand remains a fundamental skill for designers. Hand sketching trains the eye to observe space, proportion, and form more carefully, making it an essential foundation for architectural thinking and visual communication.

This book includes 45 step-by-step exercises that guide students through drawing increasingly complex subjects — from simple furniture forms to interior spaces, buildings, and urban scenes.

Key drawing concepts covered include:

• Sketching tools and techniques

• Line weight and drawing control

• Perspective and proportion

• Composition and spatial understanding

• Shading and tonal value

• Sequential views and spatial storytelling

• Context and environmental observation

Through carefully illustrated examples and structured exercises, students learn how sketching becomes a powerful tool for seeing, thinking, and designing.

As the author explains:

“Drawing is truly a tool for seeing. To draw an object, interior or building, you have to look at the subject in a new way.”

This book is an indispensable guide for architecture, interior design, and product design students who want to strengthen their visual communication and observational skills.

Author

Stephanie Travis
Director and Associate Professor of the Interior Architecture and Design Program at The George Washington University, Washington, DC. She has extensive academic and professional experience and previously served as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Design Education.

Product Details

Specifications

• Weight: 200gr
• Usage: Indoor & outdoor

Pros and cons

• Sustainably produced
• Ideal for everyday use
• May discolor in direct sunlight