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Talks and lectures

Future Architects Discuss: Drawing Attention with Hamza Shaikh

Join us for the next event in the Future Architects Discuss series where Hamza Shaikh will talk about his book Drawing Attention: Architecture in the Age of Social Media with Maryam Al-Irhayim.

  • today 23 March 2023, 6pm to 7pm
  • place Online
  • receipt Free

Our RIBA Future Architects Discuss events provide a forum for open discussion on key topics for the architecture student community.

For this event, we will hear from Hamza Shaikh, architect and author of the newly released book by RIBA Publishing - Drawing Attention: Architecture in the Age of Social Media.

Hamza will share how his book gives readers a peek behind the illustrative curtain, exploring the processes and techniques that have helped to create some of the most outstanding drawings online.

This event will be chaired by Maryam Al-Irhayim, RIBA Vice President for Students and Associates, followed by Q&A.

About the speaker

Hamza Shaikh is an architectural designer at Gensler, and host/producer of the Two Worlds Design podcast. Having been active in the niche of architectural illustration on Instagram, he has gained a large following over the past five years.

In 2019, he produced and hosted the first-ever Architecture Creatives Q&A session live on Instagram with many emerging influencers and illustrators where they collectively answered many audience questions relating to architecture drawing and Instagram brand creation.

Buy Drawing Attention: Architecture in the Age of Social Media from RIBA Books, available now.