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William Block

William Block

Westlake Village, CA, US

 
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About 

William Block is an architect, illustrator and animator living just north of Los Angeles.   He specializes in developing concepts of place and the story telling that describes them.  These include urban concepts, community planning, mixed use projects and work for the entertainment industry.  He develops plans responding to client, city needs that always keep in mind the pedestrian interaction and experience through space. 

He is also working on children's books and animations describing place and its evolution as a means to connect children to each other and to their community.

As an illustrator, he creates character illustrations that are used to convey the scale, context and feeling of a project.  The illustrations are used in presentations to the community, to city council members and to the general public.

He is involved in urban work, TOD projects, new communities with live, work, learn and recreational components.  His concepts for the Entertainment Industry include theme park design, and the resort themed areas that are adjacent to the parks.

His process is to develop a storyline, a plan, and then build  models in 3D that are used to investigate the massing of built forms, then an architectural vocabulary.  These models are also used as the basis for creating the character sketches that communicate the unique story for each place, project.

 

William Block Architect

wblock@blockanimated.com
www.blockanimated.com
Tel. 805.405.3760

Employment 

Walt Disney Imagineering, Glendale, CA, US, Concept Architect

A concept architect first as an employee, then as a consultant. I worked both in the United States an in Paris.

Jan 1986 - Mar 2012
 

Viguier Jodry and Associates, Paris, France, Concept Designer and illustrator

Developed Urban Concepts and visualized them. Projects were all over the workd

Sep 1987 - Aug 1992
 

William Pereira Associates, Johnson Fain Associates, Los Angeles, CA, US, Urban Designer, Visualizer

Urban Design Studies, Illustration of projects

Jan 1982 - Jun 1986
 

Education 

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, US, Architecture

Architecture and Illustration, Graphic Design

Sep 1972 - current
 

Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Santa Monica, CA, US, BArch, Architecture

Architecture, Urban Design

Sep 1975 - Jun 1977
 

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