Architectural floor plan illustration

Author: David A. Davis, Theodore D. Walker (USA)
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: Title: Architectural Plan Diagrams Author/Translator: David (USA) and others Publisher: China Architecture & Building Press Standard Number: Publishing Date: 2002-9-1 Printing Date: 2002-9-1 Book Number: 711204958X Format: Paperback 16K Pages: 264 pages
As a landscape designer, your success will largely depend on your level of drawing and rendering skills—you will use these to express your design ideas at every stage of the design process. This book provides you with a wealth of examples and teaches you how to create persuasive diagrams to clearly, accurately, and perfectly convey your design concepts to your intended audience. The authors of this book demonstrate the best traditional image presentation methods and innovative techniques used by advanced landscape architecture firms through numerous contemporary design works.
The features of the new edition include:
1. Image presentation methods at each stage of the design process
2. A combination of hand-drawn rendering and computer technology
3. Content covering text, color illustrations, site analysis, plans, construction documents, and exquisite renderings, sections, and elevations
4. 275 all-new examples
5. 488-page color illustration gallery
6. Works from nearly 50 renowned firms, including ALTOONPORTER, CHAISTYTENEYCK, DESIGNWORKSHOP, EDSA, EDAW, LEHMANSMITHWISEMAN, and MESA Design Group
This book has nurtured a generation of landscape architects in image presentation techniques. The updated and expanded version (the fifth edition) will become a valuable resource for landscape architecture students and newly practicing landscape designers. It can also serve as a useful reference for landscape architects, architects, urban planners, civil engineers, and landscape engineering contractors.