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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.
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The updated edition of the architectural graphics bestseller–more than 500,000 copies sold
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.
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The updated edition of the architectural graphics bestseller–more than 500,000 copies sold
Architectural Graphics presents the essential drawing tools, principles, and techniques designers use to communicate architectural ideas. In this Fourth Edition, Francis D.K. Ching expands upon the wealth of illustrations and instruction that have made this book a classic and expertly guides readers through the subtleties of translating architectural ideas into effective visual representations. In this up-to-date edition, Ching presents ways to use his unparalleled approaches on the computer.
Readers learn Ching’s renowned methods through:
- Expanded and updated coverage of multiview drawings, paraline drawings, and perspective drawings
- Techniques for drawing section views of building interiors
- Methods for creating perspectives and accurate shade and shadows
- Freehand sketching and diagramming
- And much more
Clearly and beautifully, Architectural Graphics, Fourth Edition presents the complexity of architectural concepts in an intuitive graphic manner that benefits the professional and enthusiast alike.
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This chapter introduces the pencils and pens necessary for inscribing lines, the instruments available for guiding the eye and hand while drawing, and the surfaces suitable for receiving the hand-drawn lines. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
paraline view, paraline drawings, ofa drawing, multiview drawings, plan obliques, ofa building, elevation obliques, cut elements, optical reality, architectural presentations, plan setup, spatial void, architectural graphics, perspective grid, digital drawing, picture plane, drafting film, tonal values, axonometric projection, building elevations, technical pens, receding lines, vanishing trace, drawing surface, drawing systems New!
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This chapter introduces the pencils and pens necessary for inscribing lines, the instruments available for guiding the eye and hand while drawing, and the surfaces suitable for receiving the hand-drawn lines. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
paraline view, paraline drawings, ofa drawing, multiview drawings, plan obliques, ofa building, elevation obliques, cut elements, optical reality, architectural presentations, plan setup, spatial void, architectural graphics, perspective grid, digital drawing, picture plane, drafting film, tonal values, axonometric projection, building elevations, technical pens, receding lines, vanishing trace, drawing surface, drawing systems New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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