Design Drafting category: 533 books
Freehand Drawing and Discovery, Enhanced Edition
Urban Sketching and Concept Drawing for Designers
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Features access to video tutorials!
Designed to help architects, planners, and landscape architects use freehand sketching to quickly and creatively generate design concepts, Freehand Drawing and Discovery uses an array of cross-disciplinary examples to help readers develop their drawing skills....
The Signature of Power
Buildings, Communications, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Advanced industrial societies are becoming aware of the impact of what they do to the physical and biological environment, and also what that environment does to individuals. In The Signature of Power, Harold D. Lasswell examines the symbolic use people make of their surroundings and the complexity...
A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture
Past, Present, Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture: Past, Present, Future examines the impact of Chinese philosophy on China’s historic structures, as well as on modern Chinese urban aesthetics and architectural forms. For architecture in China moving forward, author David Wang posits a theory, the New Virtualism,...
Marco Frascari's Dream House
A Theory of Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
This previously unpublished work is essential reading for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari’s scholarship and teachings over the last three decades. It also provides the perfect introduction for anyone new to his writings. As ever, Frascari does not offer prescriptive tools and frameworks to...
La Galleria dei Carracci in Palazzo Farnese a Roma
Eros, Anteros, Età dell'Oro
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 7, 2016
Ad una "auspicabile pubblicazione" della magistrale ricerca di Stefano Colonna sulla Galleria dei Carracci in Palazzo Farnese accennavo già nel 1999 e nell'occasione citavo dalla tesi del Colonna i versi di Onorio Longhi da lui ritrovati, dai quali si evince con chiarezza l'identificazione...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
***Winner of the 2019 IDEC Book Award***
Interiors Beyond Architecture proposes an expanded impact for interior design that transcends the inside of buildings**, **analysing significant interiors that engage space outside of the disciplinary boundaries of architecture. It presents contemporary...
Early American Country Homes
A Return to Simpler Living
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Twenty restored or renovated Early American country homes feature the myriad of different styles from around the country. The homes exude a simplicity that is somewhat rustic and somewhat country in an understated way. Tim Tanner also features some small cabins that have been made livable for today...
ADA in Details
Interpreting the 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Integrate your designs with compliant access interpretations
ADA in Details provides a visual interpretation of the 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Standards for a convenient, go-to reference of pertinent scoping, technical requirements, and sourcing information. Architects, designers,...
Aalto, Utzon, Fehn
Three Paradigms of Phenomenological Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
This book examines the work of three seminal Nordic architects - Alvar Aalto, Jørn Utzon and Sverre Fehn - from a phenomenological perspective, utilising the methodology of 'paradigm' (or 'in the manner of''). Roger Tyrrell explains how the approach of each architect is defined by the three sub-frames...
Rethinking Technology
A Reader in Architectural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
This essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment provides a convenient single source for all the key texts in the recent literature on architecture and technology.
The book contains over fifty carefully selected essays, manifestoes, reflections and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
In an age of increasing complexity, diversification and change, customers expect services that cater to their needs and to their tastes. Emotional Engineering vol 2. describes how their expectations can be satisfied and managed throughout the product life cycle, if producers focus their attention...
Spatial Violence
Studies in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
This book poses spatial violence as a constitutive dimension of architecture and its epistemologies, as well as a method for theoretical and historical inquiry intrinsic to architecture; and thereby offers an alternative to predominant readings of spatial violence as a topic, event, fact, or other...
Designing the Exterior Wall
An Architectural Guide to the Vertical Envelope
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
By presenting the basics of building science along with a prescribed set of details, Designing the Exterior Wall helps you understand why buildings fail and how they can be made more durable through design. Author Linda Brock connects the science and aesthetics of building envelopes through the examination...
by Francis D. K. Ching, Mark Mulville
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
The first European edition of Francis DK Ching’s classic visual guide to the basics of building construction.
For nearly four decades, the US publication Building Construction Illustrated has offered an outstanding introduction to the principles of building construction. This new European...