The Professional Practice of Architectural Working Drawings (PDF)

The practical, comprehensive handbook to creating effectivearchitectural drawings
In one beautifully illustrated volume, The ProfessionalPractice of Architectural Working Drawings presents the fullrange of skills, concepts, principles, and applications needed tocreate a full set of architectural working drawings. This newThird Edition emphasizes the importance of communicatinggeneral design concepts through specific working drawings. Chaptersproceed logically through each stage of development, beginning withsite and foundation plans and progressing to elevations, buildingsections, and other drawings.
New features of this Third Edition include:

* Coverage of the latest CAD technologies and techniques
* Environmental and human design considerations
* Supplemental step-by-step instructions for complexchapters
* Ten case studies, including five fully evolved casestudies
* Hundreds of additional computer-generated drawings andphotographs, including three-dimensional models and full-sizebuildings shown in virtual space
* Tips for establishing a strategy for developing constructiondocuments
This new edition also presents completely updated material onmetric conversions, code analysis, masonry, and steel. Sets ofworking drawings for five different buildings are followed layer bylayer from design concept through the finished constructiondocuments. A companion Web site (www.wiley.com/go/wakita) includessummaries for each chapter, a glossary, review questions,laboratory problems, access to dozens of CAD drawings, a completestudy guide, and much more.
The Professional Practice of Architectural WorkingDrawings, Third Edition is an invaluable book for students inarchitecture, construction, engineering, interior design, andenvironmental design programs, as well as beginning professionalsin these fields.