The 4th International Urban Sketching Symposium was held last week in Barcelona, Spain. It was attended by about 200 “registered” participants from 30 different countries; another 100 or so showed up from across the globe just to meet each other, draw together, and celebrate the urban sketching phenomenon. My fellow ASLA member Richard Alomar and I were among the workshop instructors. Participants included landscape architects, architects, artists, illustrators, film animators, computer game designers, as well as accountants, biologists, and entrepreneurs – all brought together by a love of on-location sketching. More landscape architects attend each year; building skills and learning how location sketching – capturing “what is” – can be a springboard for envisioning “what can be.” I’ve posted an album with more sketches from the Symposium in my Land8 Folio that you can view, here.
