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DIY Like an Architect: Parti Diagramming

Architecture class at ArtCenter’s Saturday High: week two. In the first workshop we learned how to approach a project by means of mind mapping and collaging — steps 1& 2 of DIY Like an Architect method. Today my creative teens are parti diagramming.

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DIY Like an Architect: Mind Mapping and Collaging

Even in my wildest dreams, I had never considered becoming an architect until someone asked: “Why don’t you study architecture?” He was a stranger — my jaw dropped: “But I don’t even know how to draw!”

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To Think Like an Architect Is to Allow Things Stay Unresolved

To think like an architect is to approach life without pre-conceived notions with a child-like sense of wonder.