Skill Up: Design Through Drawing - In person workshop

Skill Up: Design Through Drawing

Tuesday 18th February 2025, 11am-4pm

For young people aged 15-18 years

Join us for this creative architecture workshop to develop a series of design proposals for a challenging urban site, taking inspiration from the RIBA exhibition, Difficult Sites. Working in groups we will discover a process that will critically explore how diverse perspectives can inform and strengthen a design concept.
We will begin with a discussion on methodologies for site analysis, focusing on how architects identify and address the complexities in designing for challenging urban conditions. Participants will then be introduced to orthographic drawing at scale, a foundational skill in architectural representation.

As the workshop progresses, participants will work together through concept sketching and to-scale drawings to refine their design proposals. This iterative approach emphasises experimentation and refinement and encourages communication through drawing which is an essential skill in architectural practice.
This creative architecture workshop is led by Yang Yang Chen and Roy Coupland from the London School of Architecture.

Yang Yang Chen (she/her) and Roy Coupland (he/him) lead CITIZEN, the London School of Architecture’s project delivery office that focuses on enabling community-led projects having worked previously for design-led practices such as Witherford Watson Mann, Herzog & de Meuron and Níall McLaughlin Architects. They also lead the school’s Access and Outreach campaign, Part 0, overseeing four courses for 11-19 year olds and delivering (Un)Building and the LSA’s EPQ in Architecture.

About the Workshop Series

Our workshops for ages 15 to 18 ‘skill up’ teenagers who are thinking about studying architecture or design. Participants think critically, share their views on architecture and express themselves through creative practice. In past workshops participants have learnt how to work to an architectural brief, improve portfolios, develop architectural drawing skills using a variety of media (including digital drawing on iPads) and photography skills, and work individually and collaboratively to think about how to design sustainable and responsible architecture.

Based in London, mainly our HQ at 66 Portland Place, all participants must arrive by 11am. These workshops are led by professional educators and all materials are included in the ticket price, but lunch is not provided.

If you're under 18, tickets must be booked by a parent or guardian. Online booking in advance is essential and if we do not receive full registration information in advance of the event we cannot allow the participant to attend.

To see other learning workshops taking place in this series, see our young people page.

Terms and Conditions

• Tickets for participants under the age of 18 must be booked by a parent or guardian and advance online registration is essential. Bookings made on behalf of someone else still require advance online registration and it is your responsibility to share the registration form with that person. If we do not receive full registration information in advance of the event we cannot allow the participant to attend.
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