I make videos about architecture, design simple modern homes + share the process behind the making of architecture.
Architecture tutorials, portfolio and design advice for students and professionals, architecture short courses, sketching and drawing workshops, architectural essays, product + book reviews. Videos revealing the thinking, the process and the ideas behind the making of architecture with a focus on residential design. It's an inside look into a growing architecture practice on a small island in Maine.
30X40 Design Workshop was founded, Eric Reinholdt, an award-winning architect, entrepreneur, and author of the "Architect + Entrepreneur" book series. He's an avid mountain hiker, father, husband, guitar player, documentary film fan, home brewer and native New Yorker. My practice is headquartered in a custom designed "Long Studio" on Mount Desert Island just off the coast of Maine, home to Acadia National Park. Here I design simple, modern custom homes of all scales.
I’m kinda scared coz I’m not exactly the best at drawing. I’ve always wanted to be an architect and I’ve accepted my offer at an architecture school but I’m rlly worried coz I don’t have much experience in software design, model-making and sketching. I did. take Art throughout high school and I’d say I have somewhat decent skills at sketching but I’m scared coz IK there’s gonna be ppl who’ve been doing art all their life and they’re gonna all be better than me an I’ll fail 😭
I love following your work, I was wondering if you have any tips for how to capture videos like this? I work in Event design and would like to provide process videos
I'm not trained at all in design or architecture, but I've been in love with it for 35 years. I'm designing my first home right now, and I have pared back the more ambitious elements, to keep things simple and successful. However, I'm absolutely certain I'm overlooking things. Watching your video helped me look at it a different way, so I'm now starting over from scratch! Wish me luck!
Hi Eric I am an architect in India, practicing for the last 3 years with more than 12 years of experience in a job. Thank you for this video . This gave me the courage to keep on going for my entrepreneurial journey . It's so amazing to see the problems of an entrepreneur architect are similar even though we are worlds apart. Thanks a ton to you and ur family for the mental support ur videos have given me. Sanket Ingle Architecture Studio (SIAS)
Gotta go to school, my man. It helps that you have the interest. How is your math? How is your understanding of spatial necessity? Know anything about physics? This can all help, and you'll learn to tap into that stuff in college. What college can't give you, is the resolve that architecture demands. Think about working every day for the rest of your profession. It's taxing, to say the least. Good luck! I wish I had started when I was 15!
One of the most beautiful honest professional/family video I have ever seen. Thank you so much for letting us know your struggles and victories. May God bless you both and your kids! 🙏😊
This video brilliantly showcases the power of AI in architectural design, highlighting its potential to enhance creativity and efficiency in a good way.
I wanted to leave one more comment in addition to the one from 6 years and 1 year ago. This video legitimately changed my life and still inspires me immensely to this day, and though I have chosen a different career path now that isn't architecture, this video led me to where I am today and I'm very thankful for that. I now want to have my own business, in what I'm not sure yet, and go further into academia to possibly and hopefully become a professor in history / classics, where I can explore the history of ancient Roman architecture in various climates, my love for architecture has certainly stayed, and I'm glad that I will still be able to study it for my later studies. I'm also now getting engaged this summer, when I mean this video sent me down a different path in life I mean it, I don't think I would be exactly where I am right now without it, so thank you Eric for this video, and for inspiring me and others. Cheers from Canada!!
Can you, please recommend a computer software for my Mac book pro ( macOS - Sonoma 14.4.1) thank you. I would say I can figure things out once I am pointed in the right direction. I was schooled in Architectural drafting on a board in the 1970s. Drew many plans on the board. But want to create on a computer now. Wanting to design home for daughter.
I love trace over pro create as you said it’s scale tool is excellent. The fact you can add in site photos and write dims and notes it’s great. I like drawing in the architect freehand sketch style, works great with Sketchup.. allowing you to add hand drawn details to cad drawings. As a construction professional I like scale and reality.. dims etc.
Wow wow wow, thanks so much for this edutaining video, I am a new Architectural Photography and I am using a Lumix FZ300 to take my shots, do you think I be able to archive it?
It's honestly strange that something like a pull can be forgotten, but stranger things happen and inspectors do call the plan preparers. Good to ahve your ducks in a row.
I did work experience at a firm and I quickly realized the repetitive nature of the job that I have been dreaming about for years, thinking I had been told architecture was something it was not . After watching this I see how this wasting time for money cycle could be broken as you've shown because architecture in its simplest to me is the art of making
ive made about 10..in 40 years.throwm a few out.they are a relaxing work ,unlike real construction BC yo can multitask,waitng for glue to dry...cutting the next seyt of rafters...i use mine to build the real thing,thinking how the real one will be..the order of actual construction, i build a foam core basement then build like areal house ..in order.
I designed a house with 30-foot span trusses to allow space flexibility to be age-friendly. The framer stick built the entire thing with 2x12's because he 'doesn't like to use trusses'. There were no joist hangers, no carriage or lag bolts at the deck, toe nails to connect the LVLs. Aside from the foundation, nothing was like what was shown in the drawings. The Building Inspector failed everything until a licensed design professional would certify the work. I not-so-politely said no and walked away.
