Design Drafting category: 533 books
Structure for Architects
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
An introduction to the concepts and principles of architectural structures in an easy-to-read format
Written as an easy-to-understand primer on the topic, Structure for Architects engages readers through instruction that uses a highly visual format and real-world examples to underline the key...
Form and Forces
Designing Efficient, Expressive Structures
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Here, in one volume, is all the architect needs to know to participate in the entire process of designing structures. Emphasizing bestselling author Edward Allen's graphical approach, the book enables you to quickly determine the desired form of a building or other structure and easily design it without...
Precedents in Architecture
Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
A timely update of the architectural classic on design analysis
Precedents in Architecture, Fourth 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-eight leading...
by Henry Sanoff
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
First published in 1977, this volume was intended as a sourcebook for designers and attempts to specify the ingredients necessary to develop a design program rather than postulate a model program for which no consensus exists. As such it filled a void in the existing literature which seldom covered...
The Dynamic Landscape
Design, Ecology and Management of Naturalistic Urban Planting
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
The last quarter of the twentieth century witnessed a burgeoning of interest in ecological or naturally-inspired use of vegetation in the designed landscape. More recently, a strong aesthetic element has been added to what was formerly a movement aimed at creating nature-like landscapes.
This...
by Christopher Cuttle
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Lighting by Design provides guidance on where to find inspiration for lighting ideas, how to plan the technical detail and how to execute the plan to create safe, effective and beautiful schemes.
Christopher Cuttle's unique three level approach uses Observation, Visualisation and Realisation...
by Gail Peter Borden
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
This book examines the interrelationship of representational methods and material systems as fundamental drivers of the design process. Identifying four primary categories of representational logics - point, line, surface, mass - each category is illustrated through four precedent projects that deploy...
by Georgia Lindsay
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The User Perspective on Twenty-First Century Art Museums explains contemporary museums from the whole gamut of user experiences, whether users are preserving art, creating an exhibit, visiting, or part of institutions that use the architecture for branding. Fourteen museums from the United States,...
by Charles William Weick
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This volume analyses mechanical drawing based on its elements, or natural divisions, such as perspective sketching, orthographic sketching, pencil mechanical drawing, inking, tracing, and reproducing. It contains six chapters and was originally intended to cover the first two years of a mechanical...
Energy Accounts
Architectural Representations of Energy, Climate, and the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
How does one tell the story of energy production, use, or conservation in a manner sufficiently convincing to influence policy, behavior, and design? Energy Accounts explores potential answers to this question through compelling images, data visualizations, narratives, and other examples of accounting...
Biedermeier, de l'artisanat au design (Paris - 2007)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Historiens de l'art et conservateurs de collections qui ont collaboré au catalogue de l'exposition Biedermeier, de l'artisanat au design. Vienne et Prague 1815-1830 au Musée du Louvre (18 oct. 2007-14 janv. 2008), préalablement présentée à Milwaukee, Berlin et Vienne sous le titre L'...
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An Urban Approach To Climate Sensitive Design
Strategies for the Tropics
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The need to respond to the rapidly changing city climate is particularly urgent in the tropics where the urban transition is currently at its peak. While the need is clearly felt by the tropical urban dwellers, texts that provide an overview of the problem and indicate possible design solutions are...
Environmental Design Research
Volume one selected papers
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
First published in 1973, this two-volume set summarises and structures the contributions by researchers at the Fourth International EDRA Conference, held in April 1973. The first volume focuses on the proceedings of the paper sessions. It summarises and criticises 43 selected paper submissions which...
How Structures Work
Design and Behaviour from Bridges to Buildings
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Structural engineering is central to the design of a building. How the building behaves when subjected to various forces – the weight of the materials used to build it, the weight of the occupants or the traffic it carries, the force of the wind etc – is fundamental to its stability. The alliance...