From Mind to Paper: Design Thinking Through Drawing Workshop

What if your most powerful design tool wasn’t software—but your pencil?

Join Bradford J. Prestbo, FAIA—architect, author, and educator—and David Damon, AIA, Global Higher Education Practice Leader at Perkins & Will, for a hands-on, high-energy workshop that brings freehand sketching back to the center of design thinking.

Built around exercises from Prestbo’s workbook From Mind to Paper: Enhance Design Thinking Through Drawing, this interactive session shows how sketching helps you think more clearly, generate ideas faster, and communicate design intent with confidence. Participants will actively draw architectural elements, materials, spaces, and concepts while learning how sketching fuels creativity, rapid ideation, problem-solving, and visual storytelling.

Designed for architecture students, emerging professionals, faculty, practicing architects, and anyone passionate about architecture and the built environment, this workshop is practical, engaging, and immediately useful—whether you’re designing, brainstorming, or simply exploring architecture through drawing.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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Host or Publisher American Institute of Architects