Study sketch to drafted sketch. Sketching might be for some a natural gift, but for most of us it is about the patient—and often painful—practice of setting one’s pencil on a white sheet of paper and letting ideas leave their mark.
The meaning to draw to scale. While learning about architecture, I remember needing to overcome many stumbling blocks, in particular those surrounding fundamental questions about what makes good design. Included in this larger inquiry was the ability to think spatially, the confidence to translate ideas into space, and how to sketch in an iterative manner.
The following links represent thoughts on a variety of topics ranging from process, ideas, art, architecture, landscape, urbanism…: Researched new classes About cities: a proposal for an urban form seminarVittorio Gregotti seminarMaster History and Theory courseVirginia Tech Pathway Grant Proposal Thoughts by others About the meaning of creativitySome thoughts on architecturePoetics and politics of architecture: … Continue reading Thoughts
Background Montreal native Henri T. de Hahn moved with his family to Vienna, Austria at a young age, and at nine to Switzerland. After graduating from the College St-Michel in Fribourg with a B.S., de Hahn was trained as an architect at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, completing an M.Arch in 1985. He studied under … Continue reading Profile
Profile Montreal native Henri T. de Hahn moved with his family to Vienna, Austria at a young age, and at nine to Switzerland. After graduating from the College St-Michel in Fribourg in 1979 with a B.S., de Hahn was trained as an architect at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, completing an M.Arch in 1985. He … Continue reading Home Page