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Working Drawings Handbook, Third Edition [Paperback]

Keith Styles (Author)

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Publication Date: December 13, 1995

This book forms a comprehensive manual for students of architecture, architects, architectural technicians and draughtsmen in the building industry on how to produce clear and effective working drawings.

Every aspect of drawing preparation is covered, from the information required on drawings for particular purposes and how to relate them to specifications and bills of quantities, drawing office techniques and materials; how to relate architects drawings to those produced by other specialists and how to programme drawing office work. Such sound and all-encompassing advice given so clearly and concisely, with a wealth of illustrations, makes this book an essential tool for students and in any drawing office.

Essential tool for students and in the drawing officeUpdated to include the impact of computer drafting

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Every aspect of drawing preparation is covered, from the information required on drawings for particular purposes and how to relate them to specifications and bills of quantities, drawing office techniques and materials; how to relate architects drawings to those produced by other specialists and how to programme drawing office work. Such sound and all-encompassing advice given so clearly and concisely, with a wealth of illustrations, makes this book an essential tool for students and in any drawing office.

Essential tool for students and in the drawing officeUpdated to include the impact of computer drafting

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'This book must be essential reading for all involved in the production of building drawings.'
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'A handy manual showing how to produce clear and effective working drawings.'
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An essential tool for students, architects and architectural technologists covering every aspect of drawing preparation --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Architectural Press; 3 edition (December 13, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0750624949
ISBN-13: 978-0750624947
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 10 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds

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4.0 out of 5 stars easy way to learn, January 25, 2010

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Around 160 pages, taking you through the techniques of architectural drawings in a very interesting dynamic way.
You'll finish the book so quickly that you want to start over again.

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First Sentence:
No one who has delivered drawings to site and overheard the foreman's jocular reference to a 'fresh set of comics' having arrived will deny that the quality of architects' working drawings in general is capable of improvement. Read the first page

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Co-ordinated Project Information, National Building Specification

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Landscape Detailing Volume 1:, Third Edition: Enclosures by Michael Littlewood FLI FSGD on page 52

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Managing the Building Design Process, Second Edition by Gavin Tunstall on page 80, and page 291
Architects Guide to Running a Job, Fifth Edition (Butterworth Architecture Management Guides) by Ronald Green Retired architect Part III examiner. in Back Matter
Managing the Building Design Process by Gavin Tunstall on page 263
Practical Experience: An Architecture Student's Guide to Internship and the Year Out (Architectural Students Handbooks) by Igor Marjanovic on page 16

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