Clients Include:
AECOM/EDAW
Allied Arts, Seattle
Barbara Marks, Architect, New York
Callison Architects
Center for Wooden Boats
City of Seattle
Collins Woerman
Cutler Anderson Architects
ESA Adolfson
Hargreaves Associates, San Francisco
Jones & Jones, Architects and Landscape Architects
LMN Architects
Miller|Hull Partnership
MITHUN
NBBJ
Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen
Olson Kundig Architects
Owen Richards, Architect
People for Puget Sound
Perkins+Will, Seattle and Dallas
Port of Bellingham
RMC Architects
Seattle Parks Department
Schreiber, Starling, and Lane
Site Workshop, Landscape Architects
URS
ZGF Architects
Stephanie Bower | Architectural Illustration provides watercolor renderings, pencil sketches, and concept design drawings to many offices in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Clients include Olson Kundig Architects, MITHUN, and Perkins Will @ Atlanta.
Combining her background as both an architect, teacher, and artist, she is also passionate about passing on hand drawing and painting skills through architectural sketching workshops offered both locally and internationally. Stephanie is a blog correspondent for Urban Sketchers (www.urbansketchers.org) and a signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society.
Follow Stephanie’s work, sketches and travels on her blog Drawing Perspectives (drawingperspectives.com), Instagram @stephanieabower, and www.facebook.com/stephanieabower.Seattle
Author
The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective, 2016, now available in 9 languages
The Urban Sketching Handbook: 101 Sketching Tips, 2020
The Urban Sketching Art Pack, 2017
The Complete Urban Sketching Companion, 2020
Teaching
Sketching Workshops and Demos around the World
Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle WA | Interiors and Visual Communications programs
University of Washington, Seattle WA | Architecture program
Parsons School of Design, New York NY | Design | Environmental Design, Interior, and Architecture Programs | 10 years
Awards
2014 Civita Institute/NIAUSI Astra Zarina Fellowship | 2 months in Civita di Bagnoregio ITALY | to create an illustrated architectural walking guide
2013 Gabriel Prize | Awarded to one architect in the United States for 3 months in France | to study the use of Perspective in Le Notre's designs of the gardens at Vaux le Vicomte and Versailles
2013, 2012 KRob International Architectural Delineation Competition, Kevin Sloan Award for Best Travel Sketch
Education
Former Licensed Architect New York State
Bachelor of Architecture | University of Texas at Austin | Valedictorian
Master of Science, Interior Design | Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
Contact Information
Email Stephanie at stbower@comcast.net or call 206.284.5111