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What is How to Architect?

This is a short video introduction to the how to architect website.

The truth about being an architect

Find out the truth about being an architect, why it’s an incredible profession and a tough business. What most people don’t tell you about what you learn in school and how it differs from practice.

So you want to be an architect, Part 1

Part 1 in a seven part series where we learn how the architect invents by creating something of new utility. He is also a designer and a translator of the owners intentions.

You'll never hear an architect say...

Doug goes through his Top 10 things you’ll probably never hear an architect say.

So you want to be an architect, Part 2

Learn that if you look below the surface you’ll see that the architect makes more than a building, they also make form, story, music and inspiration.

How to design like an architect

Learn how to design like an architect looking at Le Corbusiers work as a starting place and finish with a house on a cliff in Laguna Beach, CA.

So you want to be an architect, Part 3

If your wondering what you might learn as an architect, its probably about Philosophy, Sociology, psychology, material science, engineering, mathematics, History & construction…

So you want to be an architect, Part 4

What does an architect use to be creative? Learn how the architect uses scale, form, complexity and material to create a framework for style. That framework then gives the architect parameters to draw upon for their creations.

So you want to be an architect, Part 5

Learn how Doug tried to get a job by designing a spaceship house on the side of a cliff. Using four simple words and asking the questions who, what, where and why a designer can create just about anything. See how Doug did it for a Star Trek legend!

So you want to be an architect, Part 6

Learn why Doug’s a loser and how he came to see the light when it comes to meaning and architecture…

So you want to be an architect, Part 7

Architecture like many things is about many things and I’m sure I’ll leave some things out but here goes…

Could you be an architect, Part 1

This is the first video in a five part series talking about the importance of Drawing, Mathematics, English, Creativity & Conscientiousness in going to school for architecture and becoming an architect.

How to make a portfolio, Part 1

Find out what you need to know to make a portfolio for college admission or tips on making your portfolio in architecture school.

How to write like an architect

Learn a really cool way to do architectural lettering on your next project or just for fun.

Who is how to architect?

A video response for some students in Puerto Rico answering some questions about Doug Patt, his past, his background, his work experience, thoughts on architecture and his greatest achievement.

A House for Kevin Bacon

A house designed in Sonoma California for Kevin Bacon as a thank you to his father.

How to draw curves like an architect

A few quick tips on how to use a couple different devices to draw curves by hand.

Do what you are

Figure out what you should be doing with the rest of your life.

How to cut like an architect

Learn how to use an X-acto knife and straightedge to cut thin and thick boards based on Doug’s expereience as an architectural student and practicing architect.

A house for Chuck Taylor

Chuck Taylor’s name appears on the patch on one of the most famous shoes in the world he helped to design.† Doug designs a house to memorialize his contribution to timeless style and shows off his golaces in the process.

A house for Jay Leno

Doug designs a house for Jay Leno as a place to keep his favorite cars and motorcycles and film his web show Jay Leno’s Garage.

Subscriber Skyscraper!

Doug takes the Chrylser building in New York city and turns it into a home for his subscribers.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

A quick look at Giovanni Battista Piranesi and his subterranean prisons.

architect jump from a moving train

The following story is true. Doug jumps from a moving train. Escapes being assaulted and helps an intoxicated man find laughter.

How to draw with lead

Learn how do draw crazy pencil rendered abstractions using lead.

How to animate with lead

A drawing which was originally shown in the video ‘How to draw with lead’ becomes an animated short.

How to make a Timbuk2 bag

See how doug ended up with a really cool custom bag from Timbuk2!

How to make an iphone home

This is what an iphone home might look like if you lived in the land of the Lilliputians.

How to design a water tower house

Learn how to design a house on a water tower and what that house might look like if your not afraid of heights.

How to design a cliff house

Learn how to design a house on a cliff and what that house might look like if you weren’t inclined to jump.

A birthday card to my wife

A happy birthday wish for my wife. So let’s put our birthday suits on and fulfill that marriage contract.

How to letter with lead

Learn how to letter like an architect with a mechanical pencil.

How to architect and golaces

Doug is a high end residential architect whose also taken a couple products to market. A shoe accessory called golaces, a flat pack birdfeeder made of bullet proof polycarbonate (thatís for shock resistance not the birds) , a recycled plastic material for timbuk2 of San Francisco and the script clip, a writable/rewritable paper clip. He [...]

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