5 Tips to Design like an Architect

In this tutorial we take a step back and give 5 tips on how to design like an Architect.

These tips are ideal for anyone who's working on architectural projects but doesn't have experience with architecture school AND real-world experience.

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[DesignerhacksPage]

This video is a little different than what we've been doing on the channel in the past. Did you enjoy it?

[Landhernxtdoor]

Thanks this helped a lot im 12 years old and im really into architecture the whole concept of the job amazes me and i love it!

[adagio]

I have never had any formal training in architecture and design, though I have always had a great interest in art, history etc. I must say, I completely agree with all your assessment of the bad examples - something just feels off to me intuitively. But when you explained it, a light kind of goes off and I am able to say, ah ha! that's why I sense what I sense!

[LIAISAGREENBEL]

This was explained way better than in my arch classes.-. Thanks!

[WinterJV]

Architecture is really something big, and I am still having trouble with the creativity

[hdb]

Purpose and concept are crucial to good design. Form follows function, and that is as it should be. In fact, in my opinion if your function is excellent then the form will be beautiful. I believe that every decision you make as a designer should have a path of bread crumbs back to your concept. I'm not an architect, but I am an interior designer. My strongest designs have always begun with my strongest concepts.

[greeneileen]

I enjoyed your explanations, but I can't resist adding a comment about Seattle Public Library's iconic branch. I lived downtown for a decade from age 25 to 35 and visited often, so I speak from experience. The concept for continuity with the ramps makes library sense but not people sense. Seattle has a huge homeless population that uses that library like a halfway house. They have every right to be there, but from a security standpoint the layout makes hundreds of unsafe spaces where you can't see or be seen as you browse the stacks. They also put the main floor of computer terminals above their events auditorium with no effective sound barrier at all. Computer users have to listen to whatever book talk is going on anytime they use it. The childrens' area tells the real story of the place as it has a very necesary security guard's desk - but I would guess that they also spend a big part of their day redirecting tourists away from the toilets which are unavailable unless assisting kids. (The adult toilets can't be accessed directly from the main floor from 4th or 5th avenue. It's up a floor in the most annoyingly high-concept, dramatically-hued part of the branch. ) It's not the example I'd use, just sayin' ;)

[Stonehawk]

The first example structure seems to be attempting to tell a story with the way it evolves with successive floors, and suggests that the disparate shapes represent separate and distinct usage programmes.

The lower floors being symmetrical, orderly, more simple, more rigid and stocky, and even colored in darker tones seems to indicate predictable reliability: This is pragmatic 'getting things done' space, be it commercial or administrative. It's accessable, well suited for the reception of visitors, and relatively easy to navigate and rationally understand one's own position within these levels of the structure.

The upper floors with their exotic shapes, balconies, patios, windows, and vistas are a distinct contrast, where one is invited to WANDER and WONDER rather than exert committed effort toward a goal. Its meandering layout suggests that one must take one's time to find one's way, requiring more of one's attention to navigate and therefore stimulate a much more mindful and novel experience. With its many navigational endpoints culminating in scenic spaces whose function is aesthetic in nature, it practically DEMANDS that an occupant slow down, pay attention, and take in the view, creating a sense of intimacy with one's time.

[martijnbavelaar]

Thank you for sharing all your experience and knowledge with us, I have learned a ton from you.
Greatly appreciated Tony!

[pvlcz]

7:16 In my builds (minecraft) I try to avoid these corners so i make an overhang like in the picture but long.

[pawnc]

Doing CAD for freshman year next year, and wanna just get a few tips before jumping in. I wanna be an architect when I get older, but I suuucckkk at designing. Thanks for this!

[Floatnx]

Why does the first one looks like when a kid makes lego houses xd

[GhostedStories]

That crazy building, I can see some bucklings in some columns and walls. Not surprised on something with an unknown centre of gravity.

[MithutheBakra]

This video is the best architectural guide I've ever seen

[enasa]

Thank you, it was great video and i think it is great, precise steps we need to learning. I’m an interior designer and I benefited greatly in my work👌🏼

[davinjohnson]

I felt my calling In life scream at me!! I loved this thank you 🙏

Especially when you said design should begin with function in mind followed by aesthetics

[ExplorerSK]

This video Really helped me alot to understand about the Architecture. I'm basically a Civil Engineer and would like a lot to learn architecture!

[BananaZen]

The first building you showed was fascinatingly beautiful and captivatingly interesting in my opinion...it appears to me as a combination of organic and manmade...a sort of treehouse...how can you not like this?

[rachirachanrao]

THIS IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT VIDEO! BEING IN MY 1ST YEAR OF ARCHITECTURE, I MUST KNOW THIS! THANKS SO MUCHHHH

[jennyk]

I am going to be an architect when I’m older and this video really inspires me to follow that, thanks ‼️