Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation

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...

It may sound banal, yet it is a fundamental fact in architectural design: All ideas are based on previous ideas, their imitation, inversion, rejection, or adaptation; or on their reinterpretation or ignoration. The same applies to our visual perception...

AHMM is a premier international architectural practice. Established over 30 years ago, it has won numerous awards including the Stirling Prize. Through the contributions of journalists, clients, fellow professionals and academics, this AD issue...

Most of the embodied energy can be saved in the load-bearing structure! Conceptual Design of Structures is working at the interface between structural engineering, architecture, and art. The book seeks to answer the complex question of what needs to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789076714691Author Steven JacobsFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Exhibitions InternationalPublisher Exhibitions International

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876292617Author RSMeansFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint R.S. Means Company LtdPublisher R.S. Means Company LtdWeight(grams) 1496g

Originally developed in linguistics, the structuralist approach has been introduced as a scientific method in anthropology and other human sciences since the 1950s. In the 1960s and 1970s the double category of primary and secondary structure (langue and...

Can good design truly make us happier? Given that we spend over 80% of our time in buildings, shouldn't we have a better understanding of how they make us feel? Happy by Design explores the ways in which buildings, spaces and cities affect our moods. It...

• Uses a technology-neutral approach and provides a source of common language and methods for visual scripting. • Provides step-by-step instructions for creating customizable scripts using unique illustrations and data-flow graphics that demystify the...

The role and influence of building services engineers are undergoing rapid change and are pivotal to achieving low-carbon buildings. However, textbooks in the field have tended to remain fairly traditional with a detailed focus on the technicalities of...

The Second Edition of this classic, comprehensive guide to plan and section drawing has been completely updated to serve the needs of today's architects and landscape architects. Sweeping stylistic and technical advances made since its original...

"We don't sell gardens; we sell images of gardens." This observation on the part of a landscape architect makes it clear just how important it is that a design be effectively communicated to the community, clients, and the public. Drawings, models,...

The focus of the presentation is on the individual manuscripts of the architects and designers. For some time now, many architects and designer are returning to manually drawn depictions of their designs - despite the fact that the latest computer-aided...

Nowadays we are used to think of design in terms of quality and beauty of the tangible or intangible artefacts that are generated by an industrialised system. Considering objects, graphic representations, interfaces or services, the main difference...

Organized to follow the workflow of an architect or interior designer, this book introduces tools for busy practitioners to find and apply research for their design projects. Tools for planning, executing, and ultilizing research are presented in an...

The companion student exercise guide to the classic book on building construction Fundamentals of Building Construction, Seventh Edition, involves students in the types of everyday issues faced by professional building architects. Exercises in Building...

A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO STRUCTURAL GLASS FACADES FOR ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS, AND BUILDERS Once an experimental building form, structural glass facades have matured into a fully robust technology. Structural Glass Facades and Enclosures documents,...

In Looking for the Voids, Hong Kong-based Swiss architect Geraldine Borio presents findings from 15 years of experimental urban research in Asia, proposing new ways to interpret and design urban space. Borio's focus is on the interstitial spaces of the...

"The members of 7group and Bill Reed are examples writ large of the kind of leadership that is taking this idea of green building and forming it into reality, by helping change minds, building practice, and design process."-from the Foreword by S. Rick...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780675640Author Stephanie TravisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams)...

Guest-edited by Owen Hopkins and Erin McKellar Our current moment is one of profound political and economic change. Historically, these moments of transition have seen a parallel period of cultural - and notably architectural - flux. In the late-1970s...

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...

This book brings together key works of the noted architect and architectural theorist Christopher Alexander (1936-2022), many of which have not been published before. The book contains twenty-five essays and other works, many chosen from the newly...

Photographs of actual buildings, paired with digitally manipulated images in 'before and after' comparisons, demonstrate the sorts of real-life situations that architectural design courses rarely teach students how to address, and show how designers can...

We are entering a new era of architecture that is technologically enhanced, virtual and synthetic. Contemporary architects operate in a creative environment that is both real and digital; mixed, augmented and hybridised. This world consists of ecstasies,...

Organised into 9 parts that highlight a wide range of architectural motives, such as 'Architecture as Theatre', 'Stretching the Vocabulary' and 'The City of Large and Small', the workbook provides inspiring key themes for readers to take their cue from...

This book seeks to discover the architectural potential of biological structures as they can be found in nature. The structures that give biological forms strength, movement, firmness, and flexibility are studied, illustrated, and used as an inspiration...

Get up and running on Autodesk Revit MEP 2016 with this detailed, hands-on guide Mastering Autodesk Revit MEP 2016 provides perfectly paced coverage of all core concepts and functionality, with tips, tricks, and hands-on exercises that help you optimize...

The Industrial Revolution caused a paradigm shift from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy, giving birth to the industrial city. 'City' became synonymous with a concentration of factories causing unfiltered scenes between centres of production...

3D Printing for Product Designers closes the gap between the rhetoric of 3D printing in manufacturing and the reality for product designers. It provides practical strategies to support the adoption and integration of 3D printing into professional...

The reissue of a design classic--the book that revolutionized thepractice of architecture. When it was published in 1932, this cornerstone edition of Ramseyand Sleeper's Architectural Graphic Standards was the very firstbook to present the accepted...

For over a decade The Business Side of Creativity has remained the authoritative guide to setting up and running a small creative organization. This updated and expanded edition revises the best-selling classic to include even more facts, tips,...

The only comprehensive SketchUp guide written for builders and contractors SketchUp is a 3D modeling application used in areas ranging from civil and mechanical engineering to motion picture and video game design. Three-dimensional modeling is of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450561Author Guy NordensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 740g

The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture challenges the modern practice of sealing up and mechanically cooling public scaled buildings in whichever climate and environment they are located. This book unravels the extremely complex history of...

In the era of the Anthropocene, site matters are more pressing than ever. Building on the concepts, theories, and multi-disciplinary approaches raised in the first edition, this publication strives to address the changes that have taken place over the...

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...

Graphic designers who wish to work with print finishes like blind embossing andphosphorescent ink constantly face the same problem: there are no compelling examples of the available techniques. They must either turn to existing books, which only present...

The Artful Plan explores the potentials of architectural drawing at a turning point where digitization is setting drawing free from its conventional function of conveying technical information. What can architectural drawing be today? What new options...

The completely updated step-by-step guide to?capturing experiences in sketch format-regardless of artistic ability Recording your ideas and observations primarily in pictures instead of words can help you become more creative and constructive on the...