Architecture Library Guide

Precedents in Architecture, Fourth Edition provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis that illuminates the works of leading architects and aids architects and designers in creating their own designs.

To continue developing existing building types in an intelligent way is a crucial task in the field of residential building. For this typology of residential buildings, the authors have developed systematic new presentations of most innovative types. Each individual part lays out the possibilities for using and transforming a particular form of residential structure: the courtyard house, the row house, the town house and the freestanding house.

Containing over 6,000 entries, this authoritative dictionary covers architectural history in detail, from ancient times to the present day. It also includes concise biographies of hundreds of architects from history (excluding living persons). This is an essential work of reference for anyone with an interest in architectural and garden history.

Written by The American Institute of Architects, this is the definitive textbook on practice issues written specifically for architecture students. Specifically written for emerging architects, this is the first unabbreviated guide specifically for architecture students about to begin their careers. It is required reading in a professional practice course that architecture students must take within their final two years of school.

A complete guide to what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and the major pitfalls involved.

Covers all aspects of making a presentation, from preparation to delivery.

Aimed primarily at those wishing to become professional architects, it offers those in disciplines related to architecture (from archaeology to stage design, garden design to installation art), a clear and accessible insight into the workings of this rich and fascinating subject. With copious illustrations from his own notebooks, the author dissects examples from around the world and all periods of history to explain underlying strategies in architectural design and show how drawing may be used as a medium for analysis.