Books of Architecture / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation

  • Architect's Studio Handbook
    By Terry L. Patterson

    Develop design and working drawings more efficiently Packed with useful hands-on information for both schematic design and computer-assisted working drawings, Architect’s Studio Handbook is the ideal tool for every architect...

  • Uncorporate Identity
    By Metahaven

    Bridging between design, geopolitics, architecture, and branding, Metahaven's Uncorporate Identity defies easy categorization as a monograph. The book is organized as a sequence of five chapters, dealing with data havens...

  • The Guide to the Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent
    By Annabel Lopez, Bevinda Collaco

    This guidebook introduces the architecture of the Indian subcontinent including Bangladesh in great detal, revealing a great architectural culture that is richly different from that in Japan, Europe, and America....

  • Fuller Houses: R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Dwellings and Other Domestic Adventures
    By Federico Neder

    With the publication of the Dymaxion House in 1929, Buckminster Fuller became an overnight sensation in the world of American architecture. It was an uncompromising design and spectacularly novel. The...

  • Basic Perspective Drawing: A Visual Guide
    By John Montague

    Moving logically from simple concepts to specific tools and methods, this book shows how to construct perspective views one step at a time, with illustrated examples that cover every key...

  • Building Design and Development in Hong Kong
    By City University of Hong Kong. Division of Building Science and Technology

    The property market has always been a major driving force behind Hong Kong's economy. By providing a quality living and working environment, property development plays a significant role for Hong...

  • Future Tents Limited (FTL) Architects: Innovations in Tensile Structures
    By Robert H. Kronenburg, Todd Dalland, Nicholas Goldsmith

    Todd Dalland and Nicholas Goldsmith of New York based FTL architects and engineers, lead a multidisciplinary design practice that is intimately involved in the development of tensile architectural forms. With...

  • Eighteenth-Century Scenic and Architectural Design: Drawings by the Galli Bibiena Family from Collections in Portugal
    By Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Art Services International, Maria Alice Mourisca Beaumont

    Eighteenth-Century Scenic and Architectural Design: Drawings by the Galli Bibiena Family from Collections in Portugal

  • Design Criteria for Lighting Interior Living Spaces
    By Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. Residence Lighting Committee

    Design Criteria for Lighting Interior Living Spaces

  • Seoul: The Making of a Metropolis
    By Joochul Kim, Sang-ch'ŏl Ch'oe, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning Graduate School of Environmental Studies Sang-Chuel Choe

    A detailed study of the city of Seoul. Beginning with a brief history of its pre-war development, the authors go on to examine the effects of independence and the postwar...

  • Drawing and Perceiving
    By Douglas Cooper

    Evolving from a drawing course taught to first-year architecture students, this text teaches the foundations, taking the point of view that drawing is fundamentally a tactile and kinesthetic act (for...

  • Tadao Ando per François Pinault: dall'Ile Seguin a Punta della Dogana
    By Tadao Andō, Francesco Dal Co

    Scelto da François Pinault, imprenditore e magnate francese, per realizzare il centro d'arte contemporanea Punta della Dogana, Tadao Ando continua, con il restauro della Dogana da Mar, storico edificio del...

  • Environmentally Friendly Cities: Proceedings of PLEA 98 : Passive and Low Energy Architecture, 1998, Lisbon Portugal, June 1998
    By Eduardo Maldonado, Simos Yannas

    The 15th Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) conference considered the issues of sustainability and environmental friendliness at the city scale. Some 150 papers address the many and varied questions...

  • The Principles of Architectural Drafting: A Sourcebook of Techniques and Graphic Standards
    By Hugh C. Browning

    This book provides straightforward instruction andover 700 drawings. It covers . Terms, tools and materials . Points, Lines, Planes, and Solids . Applied Geometry . Plans, Sections, and Elevations ....

  • Facility Design and Management Handbook
    By Eric Teicholz

    Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the productA new paradigm in...

  • Mechanical and Electrical Systems in Buildings
    By Richard R. Janis, William K. Y. Tao

    This book is intended both as a textbook and as a reference book for students and professionals interested in building mechanical and electrical systems. With a complete and practical introduction...

  • 既有建筑节能改造管理研究
    By 张琦著

    本书对既有建筑节能改造管理的全过程进行了梳理和研究。首先,分析既有建筑节能改造设计方案如何确定,以先易后难为设计原则,提出既有建筑节能改造围护结构和用能系统的节能设计要求,界定了既有建筑节能改造的设计范围和主要内容,建立了改造方案评价体系,提出了基于价值工程的既有建筑节能改造设计方案评价方法。然后,从项目所费所得以及效益风险方面,对既有建筑节能改造投资效益进行了详细的分析。接着应用现代契约理论对既有建筑节能改造服务合同定价进行了深入分析,解决了既有建筑节能改造服务合同定价过程的逆向选择与道德风险问题。

  • 隨手畫出室內透視圖: 零基礎也能輕鬆學!
    By 中山繁信

      用最淺顯易懂的方式,教你掌握透視圖與立體正投影圖等技巧  學會手繪透視圖,只要有紙筆便可當場表現出自己的想法。  在為客戶或主管做室內設計簡報時俐落畫出,就能展現專業度!  內容鎖定在內裝的部分,並增加了立體正投影圖的畫法。  立體正投影圖是種魔法般的技法,就連繪圖能力還稍嫌不足的人,  學會後都能夠清楚表現室內設計。  非建築專業,但會使用到相關技法的人士(如漫畫家)也適用,  搭配人物就能畫出背景完整且比例正確的插圖!本書特色  ★ 零基礎也能讀懂+上手!最深入淺出的透視繪畫技法  ★ 不依賴電腦繪圖,用紙筆就可以當場表現出自己的設計理念!  ★ 漫畫家、建築與室內設計相關人員都適用

  • 室内空间设计原理
    By 陈德胜, 刘楠编著

    本书为环艺设计教学用书,内容是针对室内设计进行的课题研究。书中将讲解室内设计原理的内容及应用,引用国内外优秀案例进行分析,并结合实践课题。

  • Realms of Impossibility: Water
    By C. J. Lim

    In the tradition of his Sins + Other Spatial Relatives, this new work follows the unique trajectory of architect C. J. Lim's thoughts and observations on the kooky world of...