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A City is Not a Tree

by Christopher Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

In 1965, the architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander published a landmark theoretical critique of modern urban design, and by extension, modern design in general. His critique was different from others of the day in that it was not based on a social or political argument, but on a structural...

Architecture in Formation

On the Nature of Information in Digital Architecture

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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013

Architecture in Formation is the first digital architecture manual that bridges multiple relationships between theory and practice, proposing a vital resource to structure the upcoming second digital revolution. Sixteen essays from practitioners, historians and theorists look at how information processing...

Repairing the American Metropolis

Common Place Revisited

by Douglas S. Kelbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016

Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaugh’s Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, first published in 1997. It is more timely and significant than ever, with new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and New Urbanism, a movement that he helped pioneer....

Tropical Sustainable Architecture

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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2007

The tropical belt – where large areas of South East Asia, India, Africa and parts of both North and South America are located – forms the biggest landmass in the world and has one of the highest numbers of rapidly developing cities. Coincidentally, architecture in these regions shares common problems,...

Color Drawing

Design Drawing Skills and Techniques for Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers

by Michael E. Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011

The Third Edition of Michael Doyle's classic Color Drawing remains the ultimate up-to-date resource for professionals and students who need to develop and communicate design ideas with clear, attractive, impressive color drawings. Update with over 100 pages, this Third Edition contains an entirely...

Drawing Shortcuts

Developing Quick Drawing Skills Using Today's Technology

by Jim Leggitt
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012

The updated edition of a contemporary approach to merging traditional hand drawing methods with 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional digital visualization tools. Jim Leggitt?s Drawing Shortcuts shows how communicating with hand drawings combined with digital technology can be ingeniously simple,...

Residential Roof Design Using Autodesk® Revit®

For Beginning and Experienced Revit® Designers

by Mark S. Sadler
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017

Make complex roof design look easy Residential Roof Design Using Autodesk Revit teaches you to model beautiful, dramatic, and realistically detailed roofs for residential projects. With more than twenty-five years of experience as a licensed architect, author Mark S. Sadler offers clear explanations...

SolidWorks 2014 Short and Simple

by Online Instructor
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014

If you are a student or engineer who is interested to learn SolidWorks 2014 for mechanical design, then this book helps you to do it easily and quickly. You will also enjoy the learning process by creating real world models. In addition, if you are a graphical learner, then you will find this book very interesting.

CATIA V5-6R2015 Basics - Part II: Part Modeling

by Tutorial Books
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015

This book is a continuation of CATIA V5-6R2015-Part I. The topics covered in this book are listed below: Basic Sketch Based Features Pad Shaft Project 3D Elements The Plane command Offset from plane Parallel through Point Through three points Through two lines Through point and line Through...

Manual of Engineering Drawing

Technical Product Specification and Documentation to British and International Standards

by Colin H. Simmons, Dennis E. Maguire
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012

Manual of Engineering Drawing is a comprehensive guide for experts and novices for producing engineering drawings and annotated 3D models that meet the recent BSI and ISO standards of technical product documentation and specifications. This fourth edition of the text has been updated in line with...

Autodesk Inventor 2018 Black Book

Autodesk Inventor Black Book, #1

by Gaurav Verma, Matt Weber
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017

The Autodesk Inventor 2018 Black Book is the first edition of our series on Autodesk Inventor. With lots of features and thorough review, we present a book to help professionals as well as beginners in creating some of the most complex solid models. The book follows a step by step methodology. In...

NX 9 for Beginners - Part 4 (Assemblies and Drawings)

by CADfolks
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015

Assemblies This chapter explains you to create assemblies using the bottom-up and top-down design approaches. • Starting an Assembly • Inserting Components • Adding Constraints • Move Component • Touch Constraint • Align Constraint • Infer Center...

NX 11 For Beginners

by Tutorial Books
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017

NX 11 For Beginners introduces you to the basics of NX 11 by using step-by-step instructions. You begin with brief introduction to NX 11 and the User Interface, ribbon, environments, commands, and various options. Within a short time, you will learn to create 2D sketches that form the basis...

Architectural Model as Machine

by Albert Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007

This book offers an explanation of why scale models are important to the design process. Albert Smith takes the reader through the history and significance of models in architecture from the magic of the Egyptian scale model to the present day. Through this description of the relationship between...