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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 720.284
EAN: 9780471209065
ISBN: 0471209066
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: June 20, 2002
Publisher: Wiley
Sales Rank: 23872
Studio: Wiley
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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.
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Uncomplicated, basic
If you are a person like myself whose idea of a perspective drawing is a line of telegraph poles disappearing into thedistance next to a road, then this is the book for you, and me as it turned out.
Starting from the different grade of pencil through the different forms of architectural presentations, with easy to read explinations.
I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who is learning architectural graphics.
Rating:  - Information is not weighted in a way that makes sense
I know that Ching is revered in the field and is recommended by virtually all, but I'm just not feeling the love, especially for this particular book.The graphics in the book have a "sketchy" look I don't just don't find appealing or inspiring. A more serious problem is the way the information is weighted:there are pages of illustration/discussion about simple things like line weights and triangles, which would lead one to assume this is a beginner's book.That would be fine, but as the book ... Read More
Rating: - Great Visual Aid
This book is great for a professional or just in school. Ching points out techniques to further develop and create great schematic and conceptual drawings.
Rating: - awesome
this book offers easy understanding of the basic conceptsof drafting.good book for interior designer and architects.
Rating: - Architectural Graphics, et al - excellent books, DECEPTIVE advertising
Get your act together Amazon or Wiley (I suspect Wiley) !!! (especially, note my final paragraph below)
1.This is NOT a hardback.
2.The "et al" is because this is NOT a single volume as suggested by the single ISBN 0471738263, but a COLLECTION of 3 PAPERBACKS - Architectural Graphics 4th ed ISBN 0471209066 (note different ISBN from that for the 3-volume set cited under only Ching's book title; 215 pages) by Francis D K Ching, Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors ... Read More
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