Architectural Graphics

Looks at working with stretch and jersey fabric. This book shows how to work with stretch fabrics and how to cut patterns that exploit their properties with truly original results.

Provides an interactive way to learn about architecture. Filled with an array of beautiful and elegant drawings, this title poses all manner of architectural challenges for the user: from designing your own skyscraper, to drawing an island house or creating a Constructivist monument, and more.

Beginning with the evolution of visual perspective, McNaughton reveals how and why illusions work. She offers optical illusions to suggest to readers that the world they perceive is in fact a complex product of their brains, constructed from the sensory data. Illustrations.

Features over 130 leading lights from different fields artists, architects, writers and designers, geographers, mathematicians, computer pioneers, scientists who make sense of exterior and interior worlds through highly personal and imaginative maps and charts. This book reflects on the relationship between maps, literature and knowledge.

The classic, bestselling reference on architecture now revised and expanded! An essential one-volume reference of architectural topics using Francis D.K. Ching's signature presentation. It is the only dictionary that provides concise, accurate definitions illustrated with finely detailed, hand-rendered drawings.

A rich and varied glimpse into the creative processes of a broad array of contemporary architects.

Bringing together authors from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and art, this book addresses the question 'Why draw?' by examining the various dynamic relationships between media, process, thought and environment.

Urban Sketching Handbook: Drawing with a Tablet presents step-by-step instruction on how to draw with a tablet on location.