Design Drafting category: 533 books
Activism in Architecture
Bright Dreams of Passive Energy Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
This edited collection gathers contributions from a diverse range of renowned scholars and professionals to uncover the unique relationship between passive architectural systems and activism. Focusing on the pioneering work of the influential American chemist and inventor, Harold R. Hay (1909–2009),...
by Michelle Addington, Daniel Schodek
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Today, architects and designers are beginning to look toward developments in new
"smart" or "intelligent" materials and technologies for solutions to long-standing problems
in building design. However, these new materials have so far been applied in a diverse
but largely idiosyncratic...
by Munir Hamad
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Covering all of the major techniques, this book uses both metric and imperial units to illustrate the myriad drawing and editing tools for this popular application. Use the companion files to set up drawing exercises and projects and to see all of the book’s figures. Revit 2017 Architecture includes...
Interpreting Site
Studies in Perception, Representation, and Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Interpreting Site explains the basic methods architects use to translate what you perceive to represent the complex conditions that physically and mentally "construe" a site, helping to shape the ultimate design. Within each of the four themes---defining site, experiencing site, spatializing...
by Christopher Beorkrem
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
In this second edition of Material Strategies in Digital Fabrication are new case studies, improved wayfinding, the inclusion of composites and plastics, and references to similar strategies between different projects. In 400 step-by-step diagrams dissecting 39 case studies in 10 countries on 3 continents,...
The Tectonics of Structural Systems
An Architectural Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
The Tectonics of Structural Systems provides an architectural approach to the theory of structural systems. The book combines:
structural recommendations to follow during the architectural design of various structural systems and
the tectonic treatment of structural recommendations in architecture.
Written...
Crime Prevention through Housing Design
Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
This book presents a comprehensive review of the impact of residential design on crime focusing upon research, policy and practice both in the UK and internationally, appealing to both academics and practitioners within the fields of crime prevention, urban planning and architecture.
Instabilities and Potentialities
Notes on the Nature of Knowledge in Digital Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Now that information technologies are fully embedded into the design studio, Instabilities and Potentialities explores our post-digital culture to better understand its impact on theoretical discourse and design processes in architecture. The role of digital technologies and its ever-increasing infusion...
by Elianora Baldassarri, Eugenia Chiddo, Oscar Cotellessa
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 11, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 11, 2015
Il volume, raccoglie contenuti e risultati del Workshop sulle tematiche dell’ Advanced Design che ha avuto luogo presso la Facoltà di Architettura di Pescara nel Dicembre 2009. L'iniziativa, promossa dalle Proff. Elianora Baldassarri e Cynthia Ghelli, ha visto gli studenti dei Corsi di Design1A...
by Joseph Choma
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Organized around a series of pedagogical exercises, this book provides a visual journey through a series of games architects can play as a means to design. Aimed specifically at beginner design students, learning objectives include: computational thinking and making, introduction to design as an iterative,...
Secrets of Success for Architects in China
Insights from the Men and Women who Built Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Why should you read this book?
If you are a young, or not so young design professional and you want to not only work in China but downright prosper and succeed then this book is essential.
It’s a distillation of wisdom from the men and women who have been in the trenches and the mud...
Disegnare idee immagini n° 45 / 2012
Rivista semestrale del Dipartimento di Storia , Disegno e Restauro dell'Architettura "Sapienza" Università di Roma
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Marco Petreschi Disegni di maschere architettoniche. Riflessioni sparse Drawings of architectural masks. Random thoughts Irene de la Torre Fornés, Ana Torres Barchino, Ángela García Codoñer Il recupero della decorazione architettonica ad azulejo del Convento di Santa Clara de Xàtiva. Colore e...
AutoCAD 2017
Guida completa per architettura, meccanica e design
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Il libro è una guida completa sull’utilizzo di AutoCAD 2017 nei campi dell’architettura, del design e della progettazione meccanica. I contenuti, ricchi di spiegazioni, suggerimenti e flussi operativi, sono di facile fruizione anche per l’utente meno esperto. Partendo da zero, il testo accompagna...
by Sheojee Prasad
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Engineering Drawing – A Practical Approach provides simple steps to learn engineering drawing starting from the concept of lines, geometrical construction and to complicated shapes of engineering drawings. This book even covers the basic requirement of learning how to read and write drawings. All graphical representation has been explained with a brief description.