Design Drafting category: 533 books
Self-Assembly Lab
Experiments in Programming Matter
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
What if structures could build themselves or adapt to fluctuating environments? Skylar Tibbits, Director of the Self-Assembly Lab in the Department of Architecture at MIT, Cambridge, MA, crosses the boundaries between architecture, biology, materials science and the arts, to envision a world where...
Fundamentals of Building Construction
Materials and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Note from the publisher:
Now in its sixth edition, this bestselling reference focuses on the basic materials and methods used in building construction. Emphasizing common construction systems such as light wood frame, masonry bearing wall, steel frame, and reinforced concrete construction,...
Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand
a revised and expanded edition of Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand is an essential companion to Simon Unwin’s Analysing Architecture, and part of the trilogy which also includes his Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect. Together the three books offer an introduction to the workings...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Designbuild Education adopts the intellectual framework of American Pragmatism, which is a theory of action, to investigate architects’ compelling urge to build and how that manifests in collegiate designbuild programs. Organized into four themes—people, poetics, process, and practice—the book...
by Matt Driscoll
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Model making is a beautiful and skilful craft, and architectural model making is a vital part of the building process. The architectural model is often the first time that a building is visualized in 3D. It can capture the excitement of the architect's vision but can also reveal unforeseen difficulties....
Exercises in Architecture
Learning to Think as an Architect
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Architecture is a doing word. You can learn a great deal about the workings of architecture through analysing examples but a fuller understanding of its powers and potential comes through practice, by trying to do it...
This book offers student architects a series of exercises that will develop...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This comprehensive catalogue of contemporary work examines the renewed investment in the relationship between representation, materiality, and architecture. It assembles a range of diverse voices across various institutions, practices, generations, and geographies, through specific case studies that collectively present a broader theoretical intention.
Adobe InDesign Interactive Digital Publishing
Tips, Techniques, and Workarounds for Formatting Across Your Devices
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Expand your skills for laying out and formatting documents and eBooks deployed for screen viewing on computers, tablets, and smart phones.
The book covers how to add interactivity to reflowable and fixed layout eBooks, interactive PDF documents, and take advantage of Adobe’s new Publish Online...
The BIM Manager's Handbook, Part 6
Excelling your BIM Efforts
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
ePart 6: Excelling your BIM Efforts: In this final ePart, BIM is taken to the next level by outlining what is required to truly excel as a BIM Manager. It highlights how BIM Managers acquire the necessary communication skills to maximise an efficient information flow between the BIM Manager and others....
Allure of the Incomplete, Imperfect, and Impermanent
Designing and Appreciating Architecture as Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Architects have long operated based on the assumption that a building is 'complete' once construction has finished. Striving to create a perfect building, they wish for it to stay in its original state indefinitely, viewing any subsequent alterations as unintended effects or the results of degeneration....
Egypt Visual Sourcebook
For Artists, Architects, and Designers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
An essential reference to Egypt's architectural heritage. This unique visual reference guide will be an invaluable resource to professional designers-from architects to illustrators, production designers, art directors, decorators, film concept artists, sculptors, and painters. It utilizes color photographs...
Visual Methods with Children and Young People
Academics and Visual Industries in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
This volume focuses on using visual research methods with children and young people. Featuring insights from academic experts and established professionals from visual industries, it explores a range of issues from visual ethics to children's interaction with place.
by Edward Allen, Rob Thallon, Alexander C. Schreyer
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
The leading guide to professional home construction, updated and expanded
Fundamentals of Residential Construction is the definitive guide to single family and multifamily home building that details every step of the construction process. From siting and foundations to finishing details, this...
by Karen Cordes Spence
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
A Primer on Theory in Architecture discusses how theory is defined in architecture, how it is identified, its location in larger perspectives or worldviews, its relationships to other areas in architecture, and how it can be constructed. The book explores the definition, elements and characteristics...