This book presents concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation, from the basics of "How to Draw a Line" to the complexities of color theory.This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for ...
In this volume, 253 archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework for engaging in architectural design.
Two of the authors of the famous A PATTERN LANGUAGE list the 10 essentials of a successful home, including proportion, good light, outdoor rooms, and designing welcoming "in between" areas (such as porches and window seats) into the plan. Includes extensive photographs and detailed diagrams of 30+ residences.
This book on buildings asks the question why so many buildings punish and restrict us because almost none of them adapt well. In real use, buildings need to adapt because their uses are constantly changing. All buildings are predictions, and yet more high-style buildings are designed not to change, not to accommodate new use. A good portion of how ...
Long recognized as the most comprehensive introduction to residential drafting and design on the market, this vital working reference uses step-by-step methods for the layout of each type of drawing required for a set of plans, encouraging designers to think through and solve design problems. Based on the latest UBC, CABO, and SBCCI codes, this ...
Author and Revit Architecture expert Eric Wing walks you through designing, documenting, and presenting a four-story office building. The continuous tutorial begins with the Revit interface and standard conventions for placing walls, doors, and windows, then progresses through the building's design as would happen in the real world. You'll learn ...
Architecture-Residential Drawing and Design provides comprehensive instruction for preparing architectural working drawings using traditional and computer-based methods. The text also serves as a reference for design and construction principles and methods. Organized logically around the design-building process in an exciting format, the text is ...
This is an illustrated, step-by-step procedural guide designed to help the reader improve graphic technique. With a teaching style that stresses speed and relaxation, the author covers all aspects of design, graphic composition, media, types of drawings and perspective techniques.
As one of the most alluring yet elusive concepts in contemporary style, glamour is an ideal that permeates our visual culture. This lavishly illustrated book radically revises our understanding of glamour in fashion, industrial design, and architecture. The volume traces glamour's trajectory from its historical middle-class origins to its present ...
Detailing step-by-step methods for the design and layout of each type of drawing required for a complete set of architectural plans, this text shows how to make optimal use of one of today's popular design tools - AutoCAD 2000. The book also contains a try & die copy of the AutoCAD 2000 software and .dwg files of selected plans in the book, ...
The essential design companion-now in an up-to-date new edition For architects, drawing is more than a convenient way to communicate ideas; it is an integral part of the creative process that has a profound impact on thinking and problem-solving. In Graphic Thinking for Architects and Designers, Third Edition, Paul Laseau demonstrates that more ...
A revision of the architectural classic on design analysis "Precedents in Architecture, Third Edition" provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis that illuminates the works of leading architects and aids architects and designers in creating their own designs. Thirty-one leading architects are represented in this updated "Third Edition" in ...
'This is the first time that I have made the commitment to give a series of talks with the specific intention of communicating my experience. The things I am saying, I am saying for the next generation-people who will set and invent other styles and who will find their own way, just as I have integrated the works of those who have been working ...
Where am I? What can I do here? Where can I go from here? How do I get out of here? Consciously or not, we ask such questions every day as we navigate the places and spaces of our lives. Whether we find ourselves in a museum, hospital, airport, mall, or street in an unfamiliar city, we depend on systems of visual, audible, and tactile cues not ...
Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question Esther Sternberg explores in "Healing Spaces", a look at the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, ...
This edition includes trends and techniques in preparing plans and sections. It also contains expanded sections on process, technique and graphic reproductions; and case studies of landscape architectural and land planning projects. Each chapter begins by presenting a completed drawing followed by a breakdown of each component contained in that ...
You don't have to be a high-tech wizard to understand the Revit software using "Introducing Revit Architecture 2009: BIM for Beginners", the perfect guide for architects of any generation. This work helps you to start with an overview of BIM concepts before tackling the Revit interface, then move on to use Revit's suite of editing tools. It helps ...
This book is a product of our joint efforts to teach fundamentals of architectural design to first-year professional students at the Yale School of Architecture.
The architect's favorite handbook - more informative and easier to use than ever! "The Architect's Studio Companion" is the laborsaving design resource that architects and builders have relied on for years. Now in its fourth edition, this industry standard continues its reputation as a reliable tool for the preliminary selecting, configuring, and ...
The filmmaking team of Phil Cousineau and Chris Zelov, along with Brian Danitz, have produced a book that grew out of their award-winning film: Ecological Design: Inventing the Future. Both the film and the book are brimming with the ideas and prototypes of "outlaw design" from the trailblazers who have defined ecological architecture. The ...
As architecture programs throughout the country break out of the classroom and adopt the holistic methods of design/build programs, the need for a textbook that bridges the gap between construction materials and design sensibility is sorely needed. "Materials for Design" is that book. Students must be taught how a choice of material affects the ...
The author zeroes in on what he considers to be the four crucial elements in home design: site, floor plan, exterior, and interior, analyzing the importance of each and illustrating his concepts with 350 photographs and drawings of 50 houses around the country, many of them his own designs, that vary widely in style and price.
"The Smaller Home" offers interesting new ways of thinking about the home. Innovative and efficient use of space can make living easier, more economical and more enjoyable. "The Smaller Home" includes the latest ideas for layout options, flow patterns, space conversions, creative storage and putting technology to work. It's a useful and ...
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