How Architects Develop Projects Today: Outline, Timestamps

How Architects Develop Projects Today

Course Duration: 3h05m

Why This Course?

Because this course teaches you how to develop better projects.
You’ll learn a clear method and a professional workflow you can apply directly to turn ideas into a coherent, well-argued architectural proposal.

The entire course is built around a concrete architectural case study: the development of a 20.000 m² university campus on Copenhagen’s waterfront. Instead of isolated techniques, you follow a complete design process from the very first idea to a structured architectural proposal. This makes the course practical, realistic, and directly relevant to real-world practice.

You will see how architects define an assignment with AI support, extract real 3D site context from Google Maps, and establish a solid 3ds Max setup for controlled project development. The course demonstrates how Midjourney can be used professionally in the early brainstorming phase, how space programming drives design decisions, and how ideas gradually evolve into a coherent architectural direction.

Everything is shown step by step through one continuous project, exactly as it happens in practice. The goal is to give you a repeatable method for developing architecture in a structured and confident way, not just to teach software features.

It is especially valuable for architecture students because it shows a complete, realistic project journey from assignment to proposal, including all phases in between.

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What You Will Learn & Why It Matters

How to analyse the assignment and develop a project that actually solves it
How to structure an architectural development process from brief to project proposal
How space programming can actively drive architectural development
How to iterate and evaluate early ideas using AI as a professional design tool
How architectural form emerges from context and program during schematic design
How to carry a clear architectural idea into further development without losing its vision

Everything is demonstrated through one coherent case study, so you see how decisions connect across phases – not as isolated techniques, but as a real architectural workflow.

Who Is This For?

Architects who want a clearer and more controlled development process
Architecture students and interns seeking to bridge the gap between school and practice
Developers and clients who want insight into how architectural decisions are made
ArchViz specialists who want to understand the architectural logic behind the visuals

This is not a beginner software course.
It is a professional architectural development course.

CPD, Certificates & Architecture Students

This course is highly relevant for architecture students, interns, and professionals documenting CPD hours.
If you want a Certificate of Completion, submit a short reflection or example image based on the course via the 2-hour Email Consulting service, which includes personal feedback and confirmation of completion:

👉 https://cadman.dk/email-consulting/

The certificate reflects real engagement, not passive viewing, and includes an estimated study time of 12-20 hours depending on pace and depth.

How Architects Develop Projects Today – Course Timestamps

0:00 [01] Course introduction – how architects develop projects today
0:28 [02] Defining the architectural assignment with AI support
5:23 [03] Extracting a 3D site model from Google Maps
11:59 [04] 3ds Max setup fundamentals for architectural projects
14:07 [05] Import + scale: bringing the site model in and scaling it to real-world dimensions
18:01 [06] Orientation: aligning the model to true north and controlling rotation
21:01 [07] Base materials: switching renderer and creating core sketch materials
26:52 [08] Layer structure: organizing the scene for control and visualization masks
30:11 [09] Sun system: location, time, matching shadows and why it matters early
32:57 [10] Midjourney installation, setup and UI
35:09 [11] First Midjourney prompts and understanding AI output
36:01 [12] Using Midjourney for architectural concept exploration
44:19 [13] Evaluating and refining AI concepts with architectural judgment
48:23 [14] Pushing Midjourney further and testing its limits
55:58 [15] Squeezing Midjourney to find its breaking point
1:11:40 [16] Developing architecture through space programming and functional synergy
1:29:56 [17] Expanding architectural understanding with AI before schematic design
1:42:22 [18] From analysis to architecture – starting the schematic design phase
1:50:58 [19] Very first 3D form development
2:02:31 [20] Finalizing the schematic design with a refined 3D concept
2:23:23 [21] Design development – verifying the project against the assignment and room program
2:44:15 [22] Concluding the project – presenting the overall proposal

About Your Instructor

Jeppe Lyngby is an architect and visualization specialist with 20+ years of professional experience, including work at 3XN and Cenario in Copenhagen. He founded Cadman.dk in 2009 and has also taught architectural visualization at KADK.

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