Design Drafting category: 533 books
by Samuel Mills
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The theme of this book is that light is an inseparable part of architectural design, and is intended to provide students of architecture and interior design with a graphic guideline to the fundamental role lighting plays in this process. While simple light sources may be enough to satisfy practical...
Sustainable Facades
Design Methods for High-Performance Building Envelopes
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Practical information on designing sustainable, energy-efficient building facades
As energy and other natural resources are being depleted, it has become clear that technologies and strategies that allow us to maintain our satisfaction with interior environments while consuming less of these...
by Michael Dickson, Dave Parker
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This new resource covers the material selection, structural design and connections detailing of truly sustainable timber buildings through:
consideration of the nature of wood and the heritage of timber construction, including the importance of forestry and conservation
a review...
by Jocelyn Spence
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
This book presents a novel framework for understanding and designing performative experiences with digital technologies. It introduces readers to performance theory and practice in the context of HCI and gives a practical and holistic approach for understanding complex interactions with digital technologies...
by Desmond Gahan
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
The idea of sustainable development may be traced to the energy (particularly fossil oil) crisis and the environment pollution interest in the'70s. The green construction movement in the United States originated from the need and want for more energy effective and environmentally friendly...
by Mark R. Cruvellier, Bjorn N. Sandaker, Luben Dimcheff
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This book contains a unique collection of various perspectives on the relationship between structures and the forms and spaces of architecture. As such it provides students and professionals alike with an essential sourcebook that can be mined for visual inspiration as well as for textually rich and...
by Mike Christenson
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Beginning Design Technology introduces how design technologies work together, including tools, materials, and software, such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Autodesk AutoCAD, and others. It teaches you how to think about each design tool, whether a software program or physical modelmaking,...
Digital Architecture Beyond Computers
Fragments of a Cultural History of Computational Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Digital Architecture Beyond Computers explores the deep history of digital architecture, tracing design concepts as far back as the Renaissance and connecting them with the latest software used by designers today. It develops a critical account of how the tools and techniques of digital design have...
Context
Architecture and the Genius of Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Demonstrates how a building's setting should inform and inspire rather than constrain architectural design
Context-Architecture and the Genius of Place is a highly engaging, informative discussion of context in architectural theory and practice. Eric Parry, one of the UK's most highly regarded...
Processes of Creating Space
An Architectural Design Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Processes of Creating Space is a workbook for beginning designers that shows how to generate space with user experiences in mind. It explains how to keenly perceive your world and seamlessly integrate architectural representation into your design process. The book uses two main strategies, blending...
Drawing Ideas
A Hand-Drawn Approach for Better Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
A primer for design professionals across all disciplines that helps them create compelling and original concept designs by hand--as opposed to on the computer--in order to foster collaboration and win clients. In today's design world, technology for expressing ideas is pervasive; CAD models and renderings...
Becoming a Green Building Professional
A Guide to Careers in Sustainable Architecture, Design, Engineering, Development, and Operations
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
A career guide for professionals in sustainable architecture, design, planning, development, and related consulting
For those considering a new career or a career change focused on green and sustainable building and design, Becoming a Green Building Professional offers practical information...
by Keller Easterling
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Privileging declarations, right answers, proofs, and universals, culture is often banging away with the same blunt tools that are completely inadequate to address contemporary chemistries of power. On the flip side of these logics, Medium Design offers no dramatic manifestos where things are new or...
Beyond BIM
Architecture Information Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Beyond BIM explores the vast and under-explored design potential undertaken by information modeling. Through a series of investigations grounded in the analysis of built work, interviews with leading practitioners, and speculative projects, the author catalogs the practical advantages and theoretical...