
Stephen Harby
February 8th, 2010 admin

Stephen Harby is a working architect and lifelong student of architectural history with a passion for travel and sketching architecture. Harby took a sabbatical from the architectural office in which he had been working for many years and devoted it to travel and sketching, and in the process moved to watercolor as his preferred medium for observing and drawing architecture. His site has a section of recent work as well as collections of archived …
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