draw like an architect
face-to-face teachingxxron mcbethxxart+architecture

 

Teaching one-on-one traditional drafting techniques for Architects in my Woolloomooloo studio (both these courses are eligible for formal NSW Architects CPD points) and various courses at at the Sydney City East Community College

This site is about preserving traditional architect hand drawing techniques from the onslaught of CAD and electronic technology imperatives

Manual drafting, freehand sketching and hand rendering by contract the old way

link to my personal art/painting/sculpture/drawing site ron.mcbeth.com.au

My name is Ron Mc Beth and my company art+architecture has been my joy since 1981. We now live in a 1910 brick and stone heritage building in Woolloomooloo, Sydney, Australia.

The building has had many lives; first as a Pump House, then as an electrical sub-station, I'm told followed by a Wharfies reading room(!) and for 20 years laid derelict, abandoned and neglected until I found it by chance in 1992. It has taught me about serendipity and following your heart in all things.

I pursue all things drawn, both new and old, particularly freehand and "old-style" intuitive manual drawing using drawing boards, the beautiful relics of architecture.

"Take the line for a walk"...Paul Klee

EXPERIENCE & ATTITUDE: lots! Inquiry, enthusiasm, application and joy and wonder in all things.......

Architect, bachelor graduate from University New South Wales 1971, Certificate IV in Workplace training & Assessment past lecturer for years at Raffles College (Interior Design) levels 1-2-3 in Architectural Drafting and Perspective Drawing & Rendering, sculptor, painter, ecologically sound property developer and more.

In history, been a Project Manager/Director, Head Schools Section ACT Federal Government, National Design Manager Chase Corp Aust.(Developers), private practice architect and own Design & Construct building company, surveyor on numerous archeological digs in Italy, and so on...in a word, entrepreneurial.

me ron mcbeth - smile
Turramurra flowers
me ron mcbeth - hand rectangle
studio spiral stairs
studio in Woolloomooloo, Sydney
me ron mcbeth surveying I Fani, Italy 1990

freehand sketching - 2D & 3D - perspective - paraline

updated 6 July 2011xxxemail me