Bill Bocook, AIA: Sketches

Georgetown, Maryland, 1991.

Bill Bocook, AIA, of B.H. Bocook, AIA, Architect in Palo Alto, has been making travel sketches for over thirty-five years, always with fine tip black pens, usually on 8 ½” x 11” white tracing paper pads—though occasionally on hotel stationery or other paper that comes to hand. Responding to the editor’s encouragement of sketching in arcCA 08.2, “Landscape + Architecture,” Bill showed us his drawings, a selection from which we offer here.


Sienna, Italia, 1998.

Central Concrete Plant, Soda, California, 1973.

Ketchican, Alaska, 2005.

Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, 1972.

Lincoln, California, 2001.

Farm buildings, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 2004.

Back alley, Dillon, Missouri, 2006.


Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, 1999.

Cortona, Italia, 1998.

Originally published 1st quarter 2009, in arcCA 09.1, “Entitlements.” Bill Bocook passed away in June 2014.