Design Drafting category: 533 books
by Marian Keeler, Prasad Vaidya
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The Fully Updated, Indispensible Study of Sustainable Design Principles
Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building is the first textbook to merge principles, theory, and practice into an integrated workflow. This book introduces the technologies and processes of sustainable...
Collaboration in Creative Design
Methods and Tools
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
This book presents a number of new methods, tools, and approaches aimed to assist researchers and designers during the early stages of the design process, focusing on the need to approach the development of new interactive products, systems and related services by closely observing the needs of potential...
Exterior Building Enclosures
Design Process and Composition for Innovative Facades
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
A comprehensive guide to the design and execution of sophisticated exterior building enclosures
Focused on the design process for architects and related professionals, this book addresses the design and execution of sophisticated exterior building enclosures for a number of commercial building...
Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook
SEED Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: Seed Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues is the first book to demonstrate that public interest design has emerged as a distinct profession. It provides clear professional standards of practice following SEED (Social Economic Environmental Design)...
Inside Smartgeometry
Expanding the Architectural Possibilities of Computational Design
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Smartgeometry (SG) is a key influence on the architectural community who explore creative computational methods for the design of buildings. An informal international network of practitioners and researchers, the group meets annually to experiment with new technologies and collaborate to develop digital...
Sustainable Design of Research Laboratories
Planning, Design, and Operation
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Architecture, Sustainable Design
A comprehensive book on the sustainable design of research laboratories
Today's research laboratories are complex and difficult building types to design, and making them sustainable adds more obstacles. Written by members of the well-known firm KlingStubbins,...
Advances in Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design
Proceedings of the AHFE 2018 International Conference on Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, July 21-25, 2018, Loews Sapphire Falls Resort at Universal Studios, Orlando, Florida, USA
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
This book provides readers with a snapshot of cutting-edge methods and procedures in industrial design, with a particular focus on human-centered and user-experience design, service design, sustainable design and applications of virtual & augmented reality. Reporting on both theoretical and practical...
Applying the Building Code
Step-by-Step Guidance for Design and Building Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
No other resource—not even the building code—presents the exact code information you need, when you need it at design stage
The International Building Code (IBC) is a model building code developed by the International Code Council (ICC). The IBC and its complementary codes provide design...
Heating, Cooling, Lighting
Sustainable Design Methods for Architects
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Sustainable environmental control through building design
Heating, Cooling, and Lighting is the industry standard text on environmental control systems with the emphasis on sustainable design. By detailing the many factors that contribute to the comfort in a building, this book helps architects...
Graphic Design for Architects
A Manual for Visual Communication
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Graphic Design for Architects is a handbook of techniques, explanations and examples of graphic design most relevant to architects. The book covers a variety of scales of graphic design, everything from portfolio design and competition boards, to signage and building super-graphics – to address...
Urban Design
The Composition of Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
For planning to be successful, design must mean more than simply blindly following the dictates of legislation and regulation – yet losing sight of the importance of the design process is all too often exactly what has happened.
Ron Kasprisin has written a book for students of planning and...
Architectural Detailing
Function, Constructibility, Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
The industry-standard guide to designing well-performing buildings
Architectural Detailing systematically describes the principles by which good architectural details are designed. Principles are explained in brief, and backed by extensive illustrations that show you how to design details that...
The Death of Drawing
Architecture in the Age of Simulation
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The Death of Drawing explores the causes and effects of the epochal shift from drawing to computation as the chief design and communication medium in architecture. Drawing both framed the thinking of architects and organized the design and construction process to place architects at its center. Its...
Designing with Models
A Studio Guide to Architectural Process Models
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
The newly updated guide to design process modeling techniques
Designing with Models, Third Edition is the revised, step-by-step guide to basic and advanced design process modeling. This comprehensive text explains the process from start to finish, and has been expanded to include up-to-date...