Architectural Graphics

A visual and comprehensive compilation of some the finest architectural drawings from Sir John Soane's extensive collection.

What was the golden secret known to Leonardo da Vinci, Kepler, Plato and the ancient magicians? Can there really be a key to nature and life itself? This book aims to unravel a mystery, a code that seems to underly life, the universe and everything, a pattern we instinctively recognise as beautiful, and which nature herself uses at every scale.

The definitive visual guide to the cityscapes and buildings of the most celebrated and influential anime movies.

The first European edition of Francis DK Ching s classic visual guide to the basics of building construction. For nearly four decades, the US publication Building Construction Illustrated has offered an outstanding introduction to the principles of building construction.

George Saumarez Smith is one of Britain's foremost classical architects. His sketchbooks display a supreme mastery that goes beyond technique and assumes the status of art.

An investigation of mathematics as it was drawn, encoded, imagined, and interpreted by architects on the eve of digitization in the mid-twentieth century.

Notebook of Tyranny portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence- they reflect day-to-day implementation of laws and regulations around the globe.

Helps readers understand the role and impact of colour in urban spaces. This book covers topics such as: how and why we see colour; methodologies in the documentation of traditional colours; the development of new urban palettes; colour psychology research; and, the effect of light levels on human behaviour.