This collection covers such Southern styles as Stucco, Colonial, Floridian, Acadian, Country and more. Inside you will find home plans that range from modest to luxurious in both single and two stories. View More...
Filled with design ideas and practical work tips, this workbook guides the reader through the remodelling process, from small dormer windows to entire second floors. Question-and-answer sections offer solutions to common problems. View More...
This text introduces basic drafting concepts and applies them to specific architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) problems. No prior knowledge of drafting is required. The Criterion Reference Instructional (CRI) format is used to teach drafting by presenting information and immediately reinforcing skills with practice exercises. The text focuses on gaining a solid understanding of all basic drafting techniques found in the construction industry for both residential and commercial structures, not on materials used. An overview of construction industry drafting is presented in Chapter... View More...
This book offers comprehensive introduction to the field of residential drafting and design. Using step-by-step methods for layout of each type of drawing the student is shown how to think critically and solve problems in design. By walking the reader through the process from planning, review of architecture, structure design, building codes, requirements and variables this book illustrates exactly what is required to execute a set of plans. CADD applications are included as well as projects from basic to advanced levels...With current information on building materials, building codes and upda... View More...
Architecture: Drafting and Design is a comprehensive, up-to-date program designed to help students learn and communicate basic principles of architectural design and construction systems. With the broad scope of the content and the multitude of resource materials, courses can easily be designed to fit both beginning and more advanced architectural drafting students. View More...
Teaching students how to make architectural drawings using a computer and the AutoCAD 2004 program, this manual employs the prompt-response format in beginning exercises of all chapters to allow students to learn commands in a drawing situation. The text then moves to an outline form in later exercises so they can apply the commands on their own. Applying all the new features of AutoCAD Release 2004, the text provides support information and tips and articles throughout for an examination of the system. View More...
Read and understand construction documents, blueprints, and schedules. Includes layouts of structural, mechanical, HVAC and electrical drawings. Shows how to interpret sectional views, follow diagrams and schematics, and covers common problems with construction specifications. View More...
Introduction by Frank O. Gehry. Opening to a dazzling full-yard span, this panoramic tour introduces more than fifty of the world's greatest bridges in 200 high-quality black-&-white photographs and an engaging text that sheds light on the historical and technological background of constructions that range from the ancient Roman Pont du Gard to the newly constructed Tsing Ma bridge in Hong Kong. View More...
Seventeen talented architects and designers present 44 of their best Carriage Barns in this new book. All have the charm of yesterday's carriage houses, but all are modern designs of garages, workshops, stables, studios or live-in barns that can be built from blueprints or kits. Many have flexible plans and optional sizes, so there are actually 142 different layouts for readers to choose from. The book includes illustrations of 19th century carriage barns for inspiration and a directory of 168 catalogs and websites with sources of old-time hardware, vintage timber frames, coach house lamps, st... View More...
Whether you want to create a space for eating al fresco or redo the kitchen in charming country style, these innovative ideas and lush color photos illustrate the possibilities for creating a beautiful, livable home. Four inspiring, information-packed sections focus on bathrooms, kitchens, dining areas, and home offices: each has an introduction that describes the history of the room and its decor, followed by a selection of current design concepts and tips.
DESIGN BASICS is a popular introduction to two-dimensional design. Each concept is presented in a full two- or four-page spread, making the text practical and easy for students to refer to while they work. The modular format also gives instructors the utmost flexibility in organizing their course. Visual examples from many periods, peoples, and cultures are provided for all elements and principles of design, and the diversity of illustrations also includes examples from nature and non-art sources, encouraging students to see these principles in the world. View More...
This is comprehensive introduction to drawing and more sheds new light on the relationship between perception, drawing, and design. Design Drawing covers the traditional basics of drawing, including line, shape, tone, and space. The supplemental CD-ROM contains information and instruction that elucidates a broad range of design drawing concepts through animation, video, and three-dimensional models. Intended for use with the book or as a stand-alone product, the CD-ROM includes 25 interactive lessons which demonstrate concepts and techniques in a way that a 2-D book format cannot. View More...
This best-selling collection of 500 home plans is now bigger and better than ever. A mainstay of bookstores and libraries since 1984, this book has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to stock house plans and helped them choose and build the home of their dreams. Along with brand-new plans, this completely revised edition presents a 32-page 4-color Reader's Choice section. Among the variety of plans offered: One- and Two-Story Traditional and Contemporary homes, Multi-Level homes, Vacation and Second homes and much more. View More...
Organized in a modified CSI MasterFormat, this text covers initial planning and estimating through design and construction/installation. Included are materials and specifications checklists, quick references to applicable codes and standards, design data and typical details. View More...
At the age of thirty-six, in 1852, Lt. Montgomery Cunningham Meigs of the Army Corps of Engineers reported to Washington, D.C., for duty as a special assistant to the chief army engineer, Gen. Joseph G. Totten. It was a fateful assignment, both for the nation's capital and for the bright, ambitious, and politically connected West Point graduate. Meigs's forty-year tenure in the nation's capital was by any account spectacularly successful. He surveyed, designed, and built the Washington water supply system, oversaw the extension of the U.S. Capitol and the erection of its massive iron dome, an... View More...
We all retain memories of places. They help to identify who we are as individuals. At the same time, they tie us to networks of people, culture, and society. Even through time they reach into the past to people whose lives and experiences were as real as ours and into the future to those whose lives we can only imagine. As a designer, Frances Downing has searched for ways to express or explain why images of place were meaningful to her design life. The reasons are interwoven and complex. Transcending personal experiences by using them to imagine other people and places, to discover something n... View More...
Magnificent black-and-white engravings of angels of all description -- cherubs and cupids, angel musicians, Victorian angels, sentimental angels, fallen angels, and a remarkable collection of Gustave Dore's angels from Paradise Lost, the Bible, and Dante's Purgatorio and Paradiso. A marvelous sourcebook of angelic images suitable for photocopying and computer scanning. View More...
For Italian city builders over the course of a thousand years, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the place where society said the most substantial things about who they were and what they longed for. In Timeless Cities, architect David Mayernik reveals how Venice, Rome, Florence, Siena, and Pienza emerged from the cultural ideas of humanism that characterized Italian society from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. Cities were literally designed to be models of the mind and images of heaven. Mayernik takes the reader on an architect's tou... View More...
