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The completely updated, illustrated bestseller on architectural graphics with over 500,000 copies sold

Architectural Graphics presents a wide range of basic graphic tools and techniques designers use to communicate architectural ideas. Expanding upon the wealth of illustrations and information that have made this title a classic, this Fourth Edition provides expanded and updated coverage of drawing materials, multiview drawings, paraline drawings, and perspective drawings. Also new to this edition is the author′s unique incorporation of digital technology into his successful methods. While covering essential drawing principles, this book presents: approaches to drawing section views of building interiors, methods for drawing modified perspectives, techniques for creating accurate shade and shadows, expert styles of freehand sketching and diagramming, and much more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76731 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From the Back Cover
The updated edition of the architectural graphics bestseller–more than 500,000 copies sold

Architectural Graphics presents the essential drawing tools, principles, and techniques designers use to communicate architectural ideas. In this Fourth Edition, Francis D.K. Ching expands upon the wealth of illustrations and instruction that have made this book a classic and expertly guides readers through the subtleties of translating architectural ideas into effective visual representations. In this up–to–date edition, Ching presents ways to use his unparalleled approaches on the computer.

Readers learn Ching′s renowned methods through:
∗ Expanded and updated coverage of multiview drawings, paraline drawings, and perspective drawings
∗ Techniques for drawing section views of building interiors
∗ Methods for creating perspectives and accurate shade and shadows
∗ Freehand sketching and diagramming
∗ And much more

Clearly and beautifully, Architectural Graphics, Fourth Edition presents the complexity of architectural concepts in an intuitive graphic manner that benefits the professional and enthusiast alike.

About the Author
FRANCIS D.K. CHING is a registered architect and professor of architecture at the University of Washington. He is the author of numerous architecture and design books, including Building Construction Illustrated, Architecture: Form, Space, and Order, and Interior Design Illustrated, all published by Wiley.

Excerpted from Architectural Graphics by F.D.K. Ching. Copyright © 1996. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
Preface

This revision of Architectural Graphics consists of a new vertical format and additional drawings that serve to elaborate on and exemplify the principles outlined in earlier editions. It retains the original text, drawings, and spirit of the first two editions and remains an introductory text flexible enough to be adapted to a range of drawing classes and curricula.

The purpose of this primer is to acquaint the beginning student with the range of graphic tools which are available for conveying architectural ideas. Th basic premise behind its formation is that graphics is an inseparable part of the design process, an important tool which provides the designer with the means not only of presenting a design but also of communicating with oneself and others in the design studio.

It is important to note here that graphic communication requires mental skills as well as manual dexterity. We must recognize that graphics, the physical end product we are always concerned with, is itself the result of a design process, a careful analysis of why, when, and where a graphic technique is employed , as well as the execution of technique.

Each chapter presents various graphic conventions and techniques and explains the rationale behind their use. The order of the chapters does not imply a specific sequence to the coverage of the material, but rather, it attempts to structure the field of architectural graphics into a comprehensive format.

This text is not intended to be a primer on design or a handbook on sophisticated rendering techniques. No definitive style is emphasized or encouraged. Each of us inevitably develops his or her own style of drawing through practice and experience.

Customer Reviews

Good all round book
I'm a first year degree student and draftsman at work and found the section on perspectives and freehand sketching particularly good.

My only gripe is that the book is an American book and as a result is all in inches and feet. It would have been much better if they had produced a metric version for publication in Great Britain. Apart from that, definitly worth having for any architecture student - fits nicely on the shelf with Chudley and Mitchells!!

disappointing
If you want to draw like Ching, get his other books, they are a lot less boring. This book shows only one style of drawing, and it uses imperial American architectural scales. Good drawing is not about copying, and other people can draw better, like Frank Llyod Wright or Franklin D. Israel. Its twenty five quid and won't change your life.

essential for any architect or student
A fabulous survey of the conventions of architectural drawing in an easily referenced, concise format. Adequately covers the basics of orthographic, paraline, perspective, and rendering techniques. Good for the first time student just learning, or the experienced architect looking for a brush up.