Reference Books


101 Things I Learned in Architecture School Best Price: $8.31 Fantastic book for architecture students. Lots of short, simple lessons that make clear all the...	Photovoltaics: Design and Installation Manual Best Price: $34.87 There is no such thing as a perfect book, but I have read all of those other books on solar. ...	Apartment Therapy Presents: Real Homes, Real People, Hundreds of Design Solutions Best Price: $15.18 Seriously. One of the most inspiring books I own. And yes, I really do ration a chapter a...	Building Construction Illustrated Best Price: $28.40 Book is very good for research and beginners learning building construction. I have used the...	A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) Best Price: $36.95 I bought this book after reading the glowing reviews on amazon. It was also an inspiration for...



The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) Best Price: $12.34 The ten laws are: 1. REDUCE - The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful...	Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies (For Dummies (Home & Garden)) Best Price: $11.69 I have a number of the Dummies books on various topics, and had an interest in how one might...	Architecture: Form, Space, & Order Best Price: $24.97 This is an invaluable reference for architecture students and professionals alike. Ching's...	Keys to Drawing Best Price: $7.62 Over the last six month I have been buying a number of instructional book on drawing/sketching...	Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers, and Ponds for Domestic Supply, Fire and Emergency Use--Includes How to Make Ferrocement Water Tanks Best Price: $46.00 I love all those oasis manuals. Once again Art Ludwig surprises us with a manual full of info...



Amy Butler's Midwest Modern: A Fresh Design Spirit for the Modern Lifestyle Best Price: $13.72 This book could stand alone as a coffee table book. There are many beautiful and inspiring...	Collections of Nothing Best Price: $12.77 Nearly everyone collects something , even those who don’t think of themselves as...	Transmaterial 2: A Catalog of Materials That Redefine Our Physical Environment Best Price: $16.45 Cannot recommend this book highly enough - it does a great job of finding cool, interesting,...	Designing Interactions Best Price: $24.73 I only read one chapter whose field I am familiar with and then judged about the book, so I...	Building Codes Illustrated: A Guide to Understanding the 2006 International Building Code (Building Codes Illustrated) Best Price: $27.17 Interpretation of codes sometime is confusing. With the picture to explain, it is much easier to...

Decorating Master Class Best Price: $23.85 Found this book helpful in better understanding and visualizing the practical requirements in...	How to Read Buildings: A Crash Course in Architectural Styles Best Price: $10.60 This practical primer is a handbook for decoding a building’s style, history, and...	Graphic Guide to Frame Construction: Details for Builders and Designers (For Pros by Pros) Best Price: $21.43 A great reference for the DIY homeowner. Lots of drawings to show you the right way to do things...	A Field Guide to American Houses Best Price: $14.04 I bought this book as reference material on the advice of an architect friend. He told me...	Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light & Color Best Price: $12.71 Really terrific book! I highly recommend it for anyone beginning in oil paintings as well as...

The Fifty Dollar and Up Underground House Book Best Price: $19.95 First off, the reason for four stars instead of five. It's because the author was very narrow...	Atomic Ranch: Design Ideas for Stylish Ranch Homes Best Price: $16.58 Good book with lots of interior and exterior pictures of houses. Only improvement would be more...	Introducing Revit Architecture 2009: BIM for Beginners Best Price: $21.92 This is a good start for beginners, there are a lot of examples that make this a good reference...	Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid Best Price: $17.91 I bought this book about a month or so ago. I have read through it once. While I will skim it...	Professional Practice for Interior Designers Best Price: $46.90 thick book,man. I have to carry it to school for my class. it has all need about Inerior Design...

A Visual Dictionary of Architecture Best Price: $28.38 Vision is better than a thousand words. This graphic book makes you very easy to understand the...	Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods Best Price: $71.98 This book has alot of information in it both on the actual materials properties and production...	The Codes Guidebook for Interiors Best Price: $65.90 This is the best textbook I have found for my introduction to building codes course. The study...	Case Study Houses: 1945-1966: The California Impetus (Taschen Basic Architecture) Best Price: $5.81 I think this book is an incredible value. Wonderfully satisfying photos for the price. The...	Color Drawing: Design Drawing Skills and Techniques for Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers Best Price: $35.58 I am a beginning artist. I am especially interested in drawing. This book has fabulous examples...

Design Drawing Best Price: $29.87 This is a great tool to use for design and is a great reference book for work if you are a...	Architectural Graphics Best Price: $20.50 I know that Ching is revered in the field and is recommended by virtually all, but I'm just not...	Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan Best Price: $20.85 While "Delirious" has its fair share of archispeak, Mr. Koolhaas pulls off an...	Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings, 10th Edition Best Price: $76.78 As a resource librarian in a mid-size design (architecture) firm, building and maintaining a...	Drawing Realistic Textures in Pencil Best Price: $12.85 A very comprehensive book from one of the top in his field. I am still learninf his techniques....

The Watercolorists Essential Notebook Best Price: $14.94 -I last painted with watercolors when they were in paintbox form -40 years ago in high school...	The Adult Learner, Sixth Edition: The Definitive Classic in Adult Education and Human Resource Development Best Price: $35.47 If you're looking for a book which will enable you to grasp the concepts of adult learning in...	Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis: Opportunistic Architecture Best Price: $21.73 I am a big fan of Lewis.Tsurumake.Lewis, so this book is like a full version. I really love it....	The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture Best Price: $23.01 The order was processed and shipped very quickly. The product is just as it was described. ...	BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers and Contractors Best Price: $65.90 This is clearly the most comprehensive book to date on the subject of building information...

Frank Lloyd Wright The Houses Best Price: $46.55 This is a lovely coffee table book with mostly spectacular color photos of most of Wrights...	Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner Best Price: $36.70 This book is beautiful, it has lots of pictures and drawings I had never seen before. I have...	The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record (Dover Architectural Series) Best Price: $7.78 this book by far is my favorite book on the worlds fair the detail and quality of the book is...	Perspective Without Pain Best Price: $11.63 Took a college class on perspective and bought this book to help. Found I got more help and...	John Fowler: Prince of Decorators Best Price: $38.90 Book's pictures are of poor quality and worse still, small in frame. Not worth the asking price.

The Business Side of Creativity: The Complete Guide to Running a Small Graphic Design or Communications Business, Third Updated Edition Best Price: $20.84 I just received this book a couple of days ago and it has been the best book I bought rescently....	D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself (Design Handbooks) Best Price: $10.00 I'd had the impression that I would learn some techniques on creating my own stuff: business...	Stories in Stone: The Complete Guide to Cemetery Symbolism Best Price: $15.43 This is the book I've always been looking for, and just didn't know it. Not only is this a...	Collage Discovery Workshop Best Price: $14.74 I am in a collage class at school and found this book a perfect supplement for all my collage...	Architectural Graphic Standards, 11th Edition Best Price: $172.00 A standard reference work on building components and design considerations - with many excellent...

The Dock Manual: Designing/Building/Maintaining Best Price: $15.14 As a handyman I like to bulid my own things. This book gives you a lot of insight. It shows an...	Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature Best Price: $57.96 Every once in awhile you find a book that becomes a new favorite. That happened recently with...	Hotel Design, Planning, and Development, New Edition Best Price: $60.95 I was assigned to teach at the Master Degree class on "Facility Management" subject...	Minimum Design Loads for Buildings And Other Structures: SEI/ASCE 7-05 (ASCE Standard No. 7-05) (ASCE Standard) Best Price: $124.74 The new ASCE Standard 7-05 Standard (including Supplement No.1) provides requirements for...	The Timeless Way of Building Best Price: $36.52 The book was in fantastic condition. I received it very quickly as well. And so far has been a...

Idea Index: Graphic Effects and Typographic Treatments Best Price: $2.99 You may be a design superstar, but you need this. If not now, you will eventually and it will...	Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties Best Price: $40.15 Wow. What a gorgeous book. Full of trippy pix I have never before seen, from psychedelic...	How to Draw Lifelike Portraits from Photographs Best Price: $10.70 This book is excellent if you've always been wanting to draw, especially if you thought you...

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