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Understanding Art
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Lois Fichner-Rathus
Designed for non-art majors, this text aims to communicate the excitement, relevance, and beauty of art in discussions of the language and elements of art-media, methods, content, composition, style and the purposes of art. "Preliminary Sketches" offer facts preceding each chapter to stimulate interest in the subject matter. "A Closer Look" ...
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The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study
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Kimon Nicolaides
An established guide to drawing the natural way, by an American art teacher who died in 1938. In a specific course of exercises, students are advised to forget technique and concentrate on the object before them.
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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
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Matthew Frederick
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 ...
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Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture
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Mario George Salvadori
The alliance between architecture and structure and the people who forged it is the topic of this book. The author provides an introduction to building methods from ancient times to the present day.
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Experiencing Architecture, 2nd Edition
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Steen Eiler Rasmussen
A classic examination of superb design through the centuries.
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Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail
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Matthys Levy, Mario G Salvadori
"Whatever goes up must come down" does not, fortunately, apply to most of the structures in today's world. In fact, whenever a building, a bridge, a tunnel, or a dam collapses nowadays, it is front page news and often the beginning of a hunt for clues and culprits as fascinating as any detective story. In this book, two of the world's premier ...
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Architecture: Residential Drafting and Design
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Clois E Kicklighter
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 ...
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Portfolio Design
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Harold Linton
A fine portfolio is the most important tool a candidate can bring to an application for a post-graduate course, design grant or competition, or to a job interview. This book shows how to assemble a portfolio which reflects the talents and qualifications of the artist to the best advantage. Aimed at architects, urban planners, and landscape and ...
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Perspective Drawing Handbook
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Joseph D'Amelio
Perspective creates a sense of space, depth, and the third dimension within the limitations of the flat drawing surface. This unusually comprehensive handbook integrates extensive text with hundreds of labeled drawings and diagrams; each page covers a fundamental principle and includes relevant constructions. All aspects of perspective drawing are ...
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Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning
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Leland M Roth
This clearly written, fully illustrated survey of Western architecture defines and explains structure, function, history, and meaning. Architecture is examined as a cultural phenomenon as well as an artistic and technological achievement. The book is divided into two parts: Part One, The Elements of Architecture, deals with the basic properties of ...
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Interior Design Course: Principles, Practices, and Techniques for the Aspiring Designer
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Tomris Tangaz
Presenting all the design principles and techniques needed for creating beautiful rooms, this "DIY" guide advises readers on how to think visually and develop distinctive, personal styles of their own to give living interiors an elegant, professionally finished look.
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Architect? a Candid Guide to the Profession, Revised Edition
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Roger K Lewis
This revised edition includes information pertinent to educational practice and addresses issues and concerns of interest to students choosing among different types of programmes, schools, firms and architectural career paths. The author is a practising architect and educator and in this book he takes a look at the education of architects as he ...
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Interior Design Reference Manual: A Guide to the NCIDQ Exam
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David Kent Ballast
For the thousands of interior designers in the United States and Canada each year who take the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) certification exam, the Interior Design Reference Manual is the ultimate study guide -- the only one recommended by the NCIDQ. The Interior Design Reference Manual covers all exam topics -- ...
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Color Drawing: A Marker/Colored Pencil Approach for Architects, Landscape Architects, Interior and Graphic Designer
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Michael E Doyle
Shows how to use colored pencils and felt-tip markers to create architectural drawings with greater impact and aesthetic appeal. Beautifully illustrated in color. "An excellent book. Highly recommended".--Library Journal. Illustrated.
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Lettering for Architects and Designers
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Martha Sutherland
The second edition of this bestselling text incorporates a new section showing students how to locate and choose lettering for different kinds of projects. Coverage includes lettering styles commonly used on a wide range of presentations.
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Design and Form: The Basic Course at the Bauhaus and Later
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Johannes Itten
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How Buildings Work: The Natural Order of Architecture
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Edward Allen, Aia (Illustrator), David Swoboda (Illustrator)
Illustrated with hundreds of illuminating line drawings, this classic guide reveals virtually every secret of a building's function: how it stands up, keeps its occupants safe and comfortable, gets built, grows old, and dies--and why some buildings do this so much better than others. Drawing on things he's learned from the many buildings he ...
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Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
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David Madsen
Intended as a first course in GD&T, this program provides complete instruction on the fundamentals of GD&T concepts. Learn how to read and interpret prints with GD&T symbols and understand how to draw using GD&T symbology. This edition is based on the 1994 ASME standard and includes chapter tests, print reading exercises, drawing problems for each ...
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Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
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Frederick Hartt
A book which covers the history of painting, sculpture and architecture. It opens with a chapter that grounds the reader in the vocabulary and basic concepts of art, aesthetics and art history. The intellectual, religious, political and social contexts of the visual arts are also explored.
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The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study
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Louis Nicolaides, Kimon Nicolaides
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Basic Blueprint Reading and Sketching
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Thomas P Olivo, C Thomas Olivo
Helps individuals develop skills in reading and interpreting industrial drawings and in preparing simple technical sketches. This fully updated edition is in harmony with the latest ANSI, ISO, AWS and ASME standards.
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Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago
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Hans Wingler
A standard work and the most comprehensive collection of documents and pictoral material ever published on this famous school of design.
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The Architect's Studio Companion: Rules of Thumb for Preliminary Design
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Edward Allen, Aia, Joseph Iano
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 ...
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Timeless Way of Building
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C Alexander
The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, ...
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Architecture Exam Review: Ballast's Guide to the A.R.E.
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David Kent Ballast
Volume I: Structural Topics is a comprehensive review of all structural portions of the ARE, including structural systems, building loads, wood and steel construction, soil and foundations, lateral forces, and long-span structures. Clear explanations of terms, procedures, and theories, illustrated with more than 200 figures and tables, reinforce ...
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