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Julie Ourceau will be teaching the week-long art camp Architectural Drawing and the Built Environment for teens 14-17 this summer from Monday to Friday, July 18 to 22, 10am-5pm (incl. 1 hr lunch break)
Course description: Explore the interesting world of architecture through drawing and city tours. This course introduces students to the basics of drawing architecture including technical drawing with an emphasis on perspective and spatial strategies. Through the discussion of contemporary and historical references, this course will provide students with an introduction to the design of buildings, spaces urban and natural environments. Basic drawing skills required.
About Julie:
Julie received a Graduate Level National Diploma from l’Ecole d’Architecture Paris Val-de-Seine in France after having worked in Toronto with the architectural firm Robbie Young & Wright and graduating from Ryerson with Bachelor of Technology in Architectural Science. While in Paris, Julie worked with architect Atelier Yann Brunnel, and travelled throughout Europe studying relationships between music and architecture. These interests led her to the Faculty of Architecture at Laval University in Québec city, where she was part of the GRAP, fulfilling Ambiance Studies Research. While at Laval, Julie developed an initial enthusiasm and importance in teaching architecture studio. Other professional developments included working in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam with the Dutch architecture firm Royal Haskoning Vietnam, as designer and project manager on a wide range of projects ranging from impact studies and township developments to cultural and hospitality projects. Common characteristics and focal points in these projects were multicultural, sustainable, energy conscious and positive social as well as environmental impacts during and after their realization. Julie returned to Toronto in 2005, working as a designer on various projects in Toronto and its surroundings, and as a traditional musician. Since joining Ryerson's Architecture Department in 2008, her teaching focus has been the design studio, including the communication and theory of architecture.
Through recent drawings, Julie has been investigating the layers of history. An architectural, urban and social understanding of physical surroundings, has pushed the creation of the Rivers +Time + Cities. This architectural artistic and analytical project relies on personal architectural understanding of cities` growth and scale, the evolution of rivers with human habitations along them.
Offering Sketching Architecture classes and workshops for the last few years, Julie has been guiding students through the sometimes complex process of sketching what you see in the built environment.
The workshops have helped students develop conceptual drawing skills to communicate graphically, and to represent the built environment, through short exercises, projects, drawing tips, step-by-step demonstrations, and composition principles. The core of the Sketching Architecture workshops have been to get out into the city and experiment, essentially, field sketching.
