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| | Description | Francis D.K. Ching's architectural bestseller, thoroughly updated Since 1975, Architectural Graphics has been a bestselling classic that has introduced countless students of architecture and design to the fundamentals of graphic communication. Featuring Francis D.K. Ching's signature graphic style, it illustrates how to use graphic tools and drafting conventions to translate architectural ideas into effective visual presentation. This Fifth Edition has been updated to reflect the latest drawing techniques helping it remain the leading book on the topic. - The latest edition of the classic book on architectural drawing by the master of architectural communication
- Over 500,000 copies sold of previous editions
- Revised and expanded to include more information on computer-generated graphics and the latest drawing conventions for architectural representation
- The author is world-renowned for his numerous architecture and design books, including Architecture: Form, Space, and Order; A Global History of Architecture; Interior Design Illustrated; Building Codes Illustrated; and Building Construction Illustrated, all from Wiley.
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Francis D. K. Ching | | Paperback: | 256 pages | | Publisher: | Wiley | | Publication Date: | November 23, 2009 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0470399112 | | Product Length: | 10.8 inches | | Product Width: | 8.4 inches | | Product Height: | 0.8 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.55 pounds | | Package Length: | 10.87 inches | | Package Width: | 8.5 inches | | Package Height: | 0.79 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.41 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 29 reviews |
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23 of 26 found the following review helpful:
 A visual guide to Architectural Drafting. Jun 24, 1999
Architectural Graphics covers a huge range of fields within Architectural Drafting, and Presentation. From perspective to plans, this book has it all. Excellent for beginners, it is a visual, easy to understand guide to Drafting.
12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent Resource for Designers Aug 20, 2003
By Chris Flood
As other reviewers have indicated, this book is ideal for architecture students. It is also useful for any designer or artist who wishes to refine line-drawing techniques. The sections on perspective are particularly well-done, more thorough than any how-to art book I've ever seen.
I would have liked to have seen some exploration of coloration techniques, but overall the book is excellent. The entire book is hand-written and hand-drawn, which gives it a wonderfully unique feel that is itself worth the quite reasonable pricetag.
13 of 15 found the following review helpful:
essential for any architect or student Nov 02, 1998
A fabulous survey of the conventions of architectural drawing in an easily referenced, concise format. Adequately covers the basics of orthographic, paraline, perspective, and rendering techniques. Good for the first time student just learning, or the experienced architect looking for a brush up.
14 of 17 found the following review helpful:
 Information is not weighted in a way that makes sense Dec 10, 2007
By Anne-Marie Gallagher
"Interior Design Student"
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 progresses, the depth of information dissapates, so that a beginner who tries to follow instructions, for instance, on preparing a perspective or isometric drawing would be completely unable to do so. In this way, the book reminds me of certain assemble-it-at-home instructions: Step one is to get out your tools, step two is to take out the pieces, and step three is to put the thing together. If you're already a professional, you don't really need to see an illustration of a lead holder. If you are an absolute beginner, you need more thorough instructions. Really, I can't imagine the audience for whom this book is intended.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Review of Kindle version Feb 27, 2011
By Scott Bovard
My primary purpose is to review the Kindle format (2 stars) as opposed to the book itself (3 stars). Because I love the Kindle it is always my first choice to buy books in that format. Unfortunately, this book does not read well on the Kindle. The problem is much of the content are that of images which, on the Kindle, border on illegible -- the zoom view is only slightly better than the standard view. The images are much better on the PC version of the Kindle viewer but not as good as the paperback version of the book.
As for the book (3 stars): it is a requirement for an architecture class I am attending which is why I made the purchase. I am a beginning architecture student and interpret the book to be a helpful overview of architectural graphics but not specific enough to be instructive.
Overall, I would buy the book again but only in the paper format.
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