Rome Architectural Sketchbook

Rome Architectural Sketchbook is a three-week, multidisciplinary course that explores the various components of architecture in Rome, allowing you to focus on sites, design, and visual sketching. This course starts each July and is articulated in two modules: Architectural Sketching and Representation Techniques (choosing a specialization from Fine Arts, Model Making, and Video Production and Photography).

Together with your classmate, with different profiles and artistic skills, you will work on-site at various locations that reflect diverse periods of art, architecture, and history in Rome. The course combines observation of these places' historic and contemporary contexts with the development of the creative process and refining of sketching techniques and personal style.

Traditional sketching methodologies and techniques, such as visual sketching and illustration layout, as well as photo research and interior design, will be deepened during the program and enhanced by visits to Roman sites and architectural spaces. As a Final Project, you will complete a personal sketchbook using different representation techniques such as video, photography, or modeling.