Design Drafting category: 533 books
by Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, David J. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Along with plan and elevation, section is one of the essential representational techniques of architectural design; among architects and educators, debates about a project's section are common and often intense. Until now, however, there has been no framework to describe or evaluate it. Manual of...
Welcome to Your World
How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
One of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experience.
Taking us on a fascinating journey through some...
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
John Ruskin overturned Victorian society’s ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design is essential – not for financial gain, but to communicate eternal human truths.
Throughout...
Cultural Quarters
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This definitive book provides a conceptual context for cultural quarters through a detailed discussion concerning the principles of urban design and planning. To examine these issues, the book presents several case studies drawn from Northern England, Ireland and Vienna to position the emergence of...
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Art Deco style was established on the ashes of a disappeared world, the one from before the First World War, and on the foundation stone of a world yet to become, opened to the most undisclosed promises. Forgetting herself in the whirl of Jazz Age and the euphoria of the “Années Folles”, the...
by Sylvia Lavin
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Kissing Architecture explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. In this fresh, insightful, and beautifully illustrated book, renowned architectural critic and scholar Sylvia Lavin develops the concept of "kissing" to describe the growing intimacy...
BIG little house
Small Houses Designed by Architects
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
What are the challenges architects face when designing dwelling spaces of a limited size? And what can these projects tell us about architecture – and architectural principles – in general?
In BIG little house, award-winning architect Donna Kacmar introduces twenty real-life examples...
by Peter Magyar
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
There are eleven different architectural design processes assembled in the book, most of them in the conceptual phase. They are done in different times, for different clients, but with the same method. The verbal text is minimal; interested persons are asked to read the drawings, as they progressed...
Geschichte des Lichts
history of lighting technologies and lighting design (german)
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
by Traci Rose Rider
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Summarizes the main issues and strategies of the forceful and fast-paced green building movement.
Many professions are increasingly producing tools to assist clients in breaking down and understanding the different elements that reside under the umbrella of the sustainability movement. For...
New Product Development Essentials: Hands-on Help for Small Manufacturers and Smart Technical People
New Product Development Essentials: Hands-on Help for Small Manufacturers and Smart Technical People
No Nonsence Manuals, #2
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This book is aimed at those who wish to develop new or existing products and get them to market quickly. Ordinary practicing engineers are crying out for easy to apply engineering product development advice. How do you take the mystique out of it, keep it simple and ready to implement?
The...
by A L W Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
This independent manual provides airport planners and architects with an essential planning guide and reference tool, based on the author’s extensive experience in the field and involvement in developing best practice airline and airport industry guidelines. Chapters cover topics such as demand...
BIM Handbook
A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Designers, Engineers, Contractors, and Facility Managers
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Discover BIM: A better way to build better buildings
Building Information Modeling (BIM) offers a novel approach to design, construction, and facility management in which a digital representation of the building product and process is used to facilitate the exchange and interoperability of...
Sustainable Preservation
Greening Existing Buildings
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Sustainable Preservation takes a nuanced look at the hundreds of choices that adaptive reuse requires architects to make—from ingenious ways to redeploy existing structural elements to time-honored techniques for natural ventilation to creation of wetlands that restore a site's natural biological...