ABSTRACT
Joshua Aidlin and David Darling met in the mid-1980s in the architecture program at the University of Cincinnati sketch avidly to understand a project, to allow it to speak to them, and to create award-winning architecture that stimulates all the human senses. The two partners at Aidlin Darling Design use different tools for drawing. Their Sonoma Vineyard Estate could be described as the work of artists, applied to a very large canvas. Hand drawing was their primary means of communication. After a series of hand-sketches, the partners and their colleagues study their designs on a computer screen. To make it all work, they collaborated on the design process with landscape architects, civil engineers, and mechanical engineers. Hemingway describes a writer's potential to achieve a fourth or even fifth dimension with the right combination of words, Darling has developed a new kind of three-dimensional sketch that's part drawing, part Xerox, and part chipboard.
