Architects, Show Us: What's on Your Desk Right Now?
We'd love a peek at where your design ideas are brewing today
Architects' drafting tables have many similar features, but each working desktop is as unique as the person hunched over it. We know, many of you prefer to stay behind the scenes and sketch in peace, but we'd love a glimpse of where your work turns wood and glass into volumes and light. So grab your smart phone or camera and snap a pic of your worktable in action — drawings, coffee cups, paper wads, coconut monkey and all.
Coffee With an Architect's Jody Brown gets things started with a snap of his drawing table on his porch in Durham, North Carolina. Then it's your turn.
Coffee With an Architect's Jody Brown gets things started with a snap of his drawing table on his porch in Durham, North Carolina. Then it's your turn.
(Here's a shot of Brown's desk without its current work materials so you can see how he put the components together. But we really don't want to see your desk this tidy.)
Option: If the action is on your bulletin board, certainly shoot that, too.
Now you. We'd love to see where you make design happen. Take a pic of your desktop as it is now and share it with us here. Just click the Comment box below to attach your photo and tell us what you're working on.
Now you. We'd love to see where you make design happen. Take a pic of your desktop as it is now and share it with us here. Just click the Comment box below to attach your photo and tell us what you're working on.
Location: Durham, North Carolina
The drawings: "A multifamily housing project for seniors and folks with disabilities. It's a 30-unit affordable housing project here in Durham. The homes are organized around common courtyards fronting an urban farm."
The light: "The cheapest task light I could find from Target. In black, of course."
The view: "That's my lovely yard. My office is in the three-season porch in my home in Duke Forest."
The desk: Ikea's Vika system, with components selected to fit the space.
The pens: Prismacolor markers
The book under the papers: Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods, by Edward Allen. "I use it to prop up my drafting table."