Resources for RDEV Faculty and Students

With more than 8,000 architectural illustrations, including both reference drawings and constructible architectural details, this book provides an easily accessible graphic reference for highly visual professionals.

Coverage of single- and multi-family dwellings--complete coverage of houses, row homes and quadraplexes as dictated by the International Residential Building Codes.

This essential reference presents complete and detailed drawings, descriptions, and photographs of entryways and openings from recently completed projects.

Provides immediate access to rules-of-thumb and standards used throughout the planning, design,construction and management of landscapes.

This comprehensive visual resource offers a truly breathtaking range of design-drawing styles and techniques. Combining clear, step-by-step technical instruction with an astounding array of illustrations, including work from such leading architects as Cesar Pelli, Michael Graves, and I. M. Pei, this one-of-a-kind reference is an outstanding source of guidance and inspiration for students and professionals at every level.

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.

Topics include: Primary elements and the principles of space design; Form and space, including light, view, openings, and enclosures; Organization of space, and the elements and relationships of circulation; Proportion and scale, including proportioning systems and anthropometry

Offers an introduction to the principles of building construction, presenting all of the basic concepts underlying building construction and equipping readers with useful guidelines for approaching virtually any new materials or techniques they may encounter.

Building Structures Illustrated takes a new approach to structural design, showing how structural systems of a building, such as an integrated assembly of elements with pattern, proportions, and scale are related to the fundamental aspects of architectural design.

The classic guide to hand drawing that clearly demonstrates how to use drawing as a practical tool for formulating and working through design problems.

The book includes material on finishes, furnishings and textiles, lighting, sustainability, acoustics, workstations, and much more.

Architect's Studio Handbook is the ideal tool for every architect who wants handy rules-of-thumb, convenient graphic conventions, and easy-to-find answers in diagrams, charts, and drawings -- all in a stay-open, flex-binding format.

Materials, Structures, and Standards distills the data provided in standard architectural volumes and offers and easy-to-use reference for the most indispensable-and most requested-types of architectural information.

An introduction and reference guide to the intricacies of architectural drafting and detailing, primarily for wood and masonry construction.

Contains all of the most important and relevant construction details used to make construction drawings for buildings.

Accurate scale plans show each floor, together with elevations,sections, and site plans where appropriate for each of the buildings.

This volume offers newly drawn plans and color photographs of a wide range of buildings by out-standing architects arranged by plan: centralized and radial plans; linear structures; terraced houses; stacked plans; orthogonal and eccentric courtyards; special cityscape responses; and infills, additions, and extensions.

An extensive reference of all materials that pertain to site work. Covers topics such as wood, concrete, masonry and other fundamental construction materials or processes.