Masterclass and Twisted Tower
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Learn more and save! Creative bundle for learning both procedural and explicit edit-mode workflows
What's included
Bundle Description
Get a discount by purchasing this bundle that includes the serious student's getting started guide!
The Blender Architecture Masterclass is the go-to solution for learning architectural procedural workflows with Blender. Suitable for both beginners and those who may already be familiar with Blender but wish to learn more about architectural techniques. The course is organised around creating a medium-density tower with a podium
The Twisted Tower continues the learning path of generating medium density architecture. In this course you will learn more about edit-mode workflows that will allow you to customise your designs further.
Aditionally, you can save further with including a 1 on 1 call for a discount compared to the base price. The call is useful to discuss your student or career track with Blender and/or specific project or technical questions you may have. Once you purchase the bundle, you will be able to access a link to the booking system where you will be able to book your slot. The sessions typically last 30-45 minutes.
For more information, see the individual courses.
Your Instructor
Dimitar presenting at Blender Conference in Amsterdam.
Sketching design ideas in his studio for this course.
Mixed use project for which Dimitar was responsible currently under construction.
Dimitar Pouchnikov
Dimitar is an experienced architect, designer, and educator with over 13 years professional experience. He is driven by the desire to create beautiful spaces, buildings, and cities that work excellently for all users. His design philosophy is based on creating beautiful architecture through the intersection of design, creating a sense of place, and technology. This philosophy drives both his professional and academic research.
With most of his experience gained while working at distinguished architecture offices in London, Dimitar understands the architectural design process wholeheartedly. Having led teams as a project designer, he is aware how to communicate to both professionals and to clients successfully. He has and continues to communicate design visions confidently that manifest into beautiful and functional projects.
Dimitar knows that the proper architectural design process is demanding and rigorous, necessitating many revisions and parallel design explorations. He is grateful to have worked in teams that have taught him and enabled him to execute this proper design process - balancing beauty, function, user requirements, buildability, vision, and giving back.
Over the years, Dimitar has developed a balanced concept-driven design approach with industry-leading parametric design skills. Having the ability to move from a simple sketch to a complex 3d model quickly and effectively is an essential skill to move through design ideas efficiently. In this manner, finding the right mix of design ideas is achieved as quickly as possible, without wasting time redrawing or re-modelling unnecessary and repetitive steps. At the same time, parametric design enables inserting greater design intelligence into projects while reducing the effort required to document project parameters for construction.
Dimitar aims to work as much as possible with free, open-source, and non-subscription tools like Blender, Rhino, Grasshopper, and Affinity that allow professionals to have access to their drawings and designs without the need to rent their software just to access previous designs.
Blender is an essential part of Dimitar’s software design toolkit and he is on a mission to show as many architects and designers its key strategic advantages. He shows various use cases on the UH Studio Design Academy youtube channel, teaches numerous courses through UHSDA, and frequently collaborates with the industry’s leading education platforms like PA Academy, Futurly, Dezact and others. Dimitar also speaks at international conferences about the advantages of using Blender as a design tool.
Professionally, Dimitar has worked on many typologies, ranging from Cultural, Commercial, Residential, Urban Design, Sport, Entertainment, Masterplanning, and High-rise/mega-tall buildings. Among others, he has worked at HOK and Adjaye Associates in London.
Dimitar holds a postgraduate M.Arch degree from the Architectural Association, Design Research Lab Programme and a 5 year professional B.Arch degree from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, in Philadelphia.
Dimitar learned Maya at the DRL programme at the AA and realised that everything that Zaha designers were teaching us with Maya can be done with Blender, and even more! After graduating, he transferred over his newly acquired Maya design skills to Blender and has been further expanding them since.
