Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation

This book is a practical guide for homeowners, with checklists and guidance on how to make their project successful. Most people considering a significant alteration to their home have no experience or knowledge of the process that has to be followed to...

Using real working drawings from a 50 year career, Ron Slade shows how drawing remains at the heart of the design process in the everyday working life of engineers and architects. The book explains simple techniques that can be learnt and used to enhance...

By use of checklists, this book provides a practical tool for the building specifier. This new edition features changes to specification classifications (resulting from revisions to the Common Arrangement and SMM7) and the latest British Standards and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899558586Author Andrew GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

The BIM Manager's Handbook: Guidance for Professionals in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a design and construction software that manages not just graphics, but also information-information that enables...

Showcasing a range of homes, churches, barns, commercial, and industrial buildings from across the UK, this book demonstrates the SPAB philosophy that good new architecture can sit happily alongside old and is preferable to pastiche. Building on the...

The Floor Plan Manual Housing has for decades been a seminal work in the field of architecture. In its 5th, revised and expanded edition, approximately 160 international housing projects built after 1945 are documented and analyzed. The focus is on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486472621Author David WatkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The bestselling guide to architectural drawing, with new information, examples, and resources Architectural Graphics is the classic bestselling reference by one of the leading global authorities on architectural design drawing, Francis D.K. Ching. Now...

The office has changed forever.Emerging from the pandemic, the workplace has undergone its greatest disruption since the dawn of the service economy. Covid has rewritten the rule book about how, when, where and even why we work. How can investors,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788090762831Author David DrazilFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Sketch Like an ArchitectPublisher Sketch Like an ArchitectWeight(grams)...

Sir William Chambers (1722-96), architect and furniture designer, wished to further his career in the 1750s by publishing on architecture. He also became the Prince of Wales' architectural tutor, architect to the office of works, then head of the royal...

This beautifully packaged book celebrates the humble and not so humble shed - from artists' studios to beach huts, My Cool Shed outlines the diverse ways of these small spaces and the unique ways in which owners are styling them make this title a delight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911339342Author ,Kurt OferFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Black Dog PressPublisher Black Dog Press

From environmentally integrated solutions to site-specific designs, this book offers valuable insights for architects, designers, and anyone passionate about sustainable and site-responsive architecture. Architecture in uneven terrains challenges...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783721210002Author Markus OsterwalderFormat HardbackPage Count 776Imprint Niggli VerlagPublisher Niggli VerlagWeight(grams) 5160g

Drawing The Motive Force of Architecture Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, this book by one of its greatest proponents, Peter Cook, is an established classic. It exudes Cook's delight and his wide-ranging,...

The lake, with its serene beauty and constant change, has been an endless source of inspiration for artists, poets, and, of course, architects. In this book, we explore a selection of architectural projects that share a common element: the grandeur of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899552492Author GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

Selwyn Goldsmith's Designing for the Disabled has, since it was first published in 1963, been a bible for practising architects around the world. Now, as a new book with a radical new vision, comes his Designing for the Disabled: The New Paradigm...

The city of a thousand minarets is also the city of eclectic modern constructions, turn-of-the-century revivalism and romanticism, concrete expressionism, and modernist design. Yet while much has been published on Cairo's ancient, medieval, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997401714Author Erin LauFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Drawn to GardenPublisher Drawn to GardenWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 4mm

A visually stunning guide to architectural drawing from the RIBA Collections for students and those wanting to understand how to develop their graphic and representation skills. Illustrated exclusively with drawings from the world's largest and most...

Modular construction has the potential to improve housing quality, speed up delivery and reduce building costs - so why isn't everyone doing it? This practical handbook combines real-world advice on designing modular housing with a compelling argument...

Form and Structure in Interior Architecture examines the basic ideas that underpin the design of interior space: From the establishment of a relationship between the existing building and the new components that inhabit it, to the design and positioning...

How do we design in a climate emergency? A new social and ecological prerogative demands appropriate material choices, a re-invention of construction, and evolving building programmes that look at lifecycle, embodied energy, energy use and relative...

The United Nations, Australia Post, and governments in the UK, Finland, Taiwan, France, Brazil, and Israel are just a few of the organizations and groups utilizing design to drive social change. Grounded by a global survey in sectors as diverse as public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996539333Author Matt DonleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 502Imprint Bizfound, LLCPublisher Bizfound, LLCWeight(grams) 984gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 26mm

Modern Construction Envelopes deals with the facade and roof as an integral part of the building, allowing a holistic approach to the design of the building envelope and providing greater design freedom. The book is aimed at readers who want to extend...

This unique and established guide to the management of design and designers has been comprehensively reimagined and updated. Written for students of architecture and early career architects, the book explores the benefits of design management from the...

Schools have the potential to empower communities by connecting people better with the places they live. But how can these benefits be baked into a design brief?As complex institutions, schools not only provide education and pastoral care for children,...

The Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger decisively influenced the international creation of typefaces after 1950. His Univers typeface and the machine-readable font OCR-B are milestones, as is his type for the Paris airports, which evolved into the...

Acclaimed as the "father of skyscrapers," the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an architect of aspiration. He believed in giving cultivated American life its fitting architectural equivalent and applied his idealism to...

PRECEDENTS IN ARCHITECTURE A TIMELY UPDATE OF THE ARCHITECTURAL CLASSIC ON DESIGN ANALYSIS Precedents in Architecture, Fourth Edition provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis that illuminates the works of leading architects and aids architects...

The techniques used to represent architectural design are examined in Representational Techniques for Architecture. A broad array of methodologies for developing architectural ideas are described, ranging from two- and three-dimensional conceptual...

Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture, which first appeared in 1997...

Design your own sustainable home Many people dream of building a beautiful, environmentally friendly home. But until now there has been no systematic guide to help potential builders work through the complete process of imagining, planning, designing,...

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...

What would you do if you could reinvent your home? A link to the garden, to bring nature closer. A re-thought layout, that complements your lifestyle. A greener home, for a sustainable future (and lower energy bills). More space. Better space. ...

In the years 1942 to 1948, Le Corbusier developed a system of measurements which became known as "Modulor". Based on the Golden Section and Fibonacci numbers and also using the physical dimensions of the average human, "Modulor" is a sequence of...