Product Description

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: #5744 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Synopsis
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.

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.

Customer Reviews

very dissapointing
I was recommended this book to learn the basics of drafting and found it a total let-down. It claims to be updated for those who draw with a computer but I found this to be little more than an unhelpful footnote in each chapter that avoids real discussion of digital drafting. The advice is spread too thin over unsophisticated presentation techniques that would not widthstand criticism in an architecture school. This is essentially a guide to freehand sketch renderings that take ages and don't look very good.

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.

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!!