Skills Map

See space as built from point, line, plane, and volume — solid and void.

Organize a composition with axis, hierarchy, rhythm, and datum.

Analyze an existing building to learn moves you can borrow.

Treat how a building is built — and how it shows it — as design.

Use program and building type as generators, not constraints.

Move from solving a brief to arguing a point of view.

Set up a folder structure and naming habit that survives a whole semester.

Always model at real-world size, and know why imports arrive tiny or huge.

Know when you're working with pixels and when you're working with lines.

Design a repeatable model → drawing → layout workflow you can iterate fast.

Keep design iterations legible so you can show — and defend — your process.

Bring AI into design work as an instrument to verify, not an oracle to obey.

Move around the viewports and edit confidently with the Gumball and CPlanes.

Draw clean NURBS curves and reshape them by control point.

Organize objects so modeling, drawings, and exports stay manageable.

Turn the 3D model into clean plans, sections, and elevations.

Get presentable images straight out of Rhino without a render farm.

Prep clean geometry for the laser cutter, 3D printer, and CNC.

Learn the canvas, the component tabs, and how Grasshopper sits on top of Rhino.

Wire components together and drive geometry live with a slider.

Read a component's ports, choose the right parameter, and control how data flows.

Build a control panel a critic can drive, and see your data while you work.

Do arithmetic on the wire and write small formulas instead of ten components.

Say 'that way, this far' and 'on this plane' — the grammar under every transform.

Generate and address many things at once with numbers.

Turn numbers and referenced geometry into real form.

Get points, tangents and planes off a curve — the backbone of most definitions.

Build volumes parametrically — extrude, loft, sweep, cap, and cut.

Place and repeat geometry with transformations instead of copies.

Control what you see, turn a preview into real geometry, and read the error colours.

Build a canvas you can still read a week later — groups, names, and left-to-right flow.

Package working logic into reusable, legible blocks.

Install the handful of add-ons that do the heavy lifting — and know what each is for.

Let a shape settle under forces — catenaries, tensile nets, gridshells, planarisation.

Measure the model and draw the measurement — curvature, areas, distances, exposure.

Let the computer search your slider space for a good option — and read the results critically.

Drop into Python (or C#) for the logic that wires cannot express cleanly.

Run real climate data through your massing — sun paths, radiation, shadows, daylight.

Push parametric geometry into BIM, and pull BIM data back into the definition.

Make a definition that opens on someone else's machine and survives the semester.

Get parametric results out as baked geometry, drawings, and cut files.

Make accurate linework with snaps, coordinates, and the core draw tools.

Organize a drawing by layer so it stays legible and editable.

Use the editing toolkit — offset, trim, fillet, array, mirror — fluently.

Compose drawings onto a sheet at scale and export clean PDFs.

Move linework between 3D, CAD, and layout without losing scale or layers.

Build figure-ground, circulation, and site diagrams from a CAD base.

Understand the parametric building blocks before you place anything.

Set up the storeys that host and organize everything.

Build basic enclosure and watch plans, sections, and 3D update together.

Compose views onto sheets and control how they read graphically.

Get drawings out of Revit that look designed, not default.

Model existing, demolished, and new construction over time.

Know which Adobe app to reach for, and set documents up right.

Layers, selections, and masks — the foundation of every render and collage.

Artboards, shapes, and the pen tool for crisp diagrams and linework.

Lay out a portfolio or booklet with grids, parent pages, and styles.

Export boards and portfolios that come back from the printer clean.

Design a consistent visual system that carries across every board and page.

Communicate with the plan, section, and elevation.

Think with a pen — the fastest design tool you own.

Explain an idea by stripping it to its essence.

Push a render toward convincing realism — and know when to.

Move through and over a project in time-based media.

Explore and present a model live — game engines, VR, and the web.

Direct an AI to build software — you are the author, not the typist.

Get an agent running and make a tiny thing work.

Get better results by asking clearly and iterating.

Get your tool onto the internet — and know where things run.

Automate Rhino, Grasshopper, and your workflow with code.

Decide when to use AI, and use it responsibly.

Build a tight portfolio that gets you the interview.

Know what firms actually expect you to operate.

Work the way an office expects, not the way studio does.

Know who does what on a real building.

Own a task end-to-end and deliver it clean and on time.

Understand the road from intern to licensed architect.