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Title: Architectural Graphic Standards by Sleeper Ramsey, Charles George Ramsey, Robert T. Packard, American Institute of Architects ISBN: 0-471-04683-3 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: November, 1981 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $130.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.76 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Architect's Best Friend
Comment: This book is one of the best reference books an architect will ever use. It contains the necessary information for the beginning and advanced architect. Inside the 568 pages in this book one will find from the most basic to the highly complex architectural graphics. The book provides reference for the various arcchitectural plans such as the floor plan, elevation and perspective drawings. No other reference material can surpass the amount of information provided in this excellent book.
Rating: 1
Summary: Be careful, this is the 1932 edition!
Comment: I bought this book thinking that it was the recent version, but it's a reissue of the 1932 edition! The publishing date is 1998 and the title makes no mention of the antiquated material. This book is an interesting historical work but is useless as a contemporary reference. Make sure you get the "10th Edition" published in 2000 if you want the recent one. I'm trying to return my 1932 antique now.
Rating: 2
Summary: Lots of Hay, but Very Few Needles
Comment: Once again the editors of Graphic Standards have promised a useful reference for architects, and have fallen way short. In architecture school (1972), I purchased the sixth edition and found it better than most reference books for students of architecture. However, even then I noticed many sections of questionable value. Pages and pages of dimensions of designer furniture and kitchenware fall into this category.
Recently, after practicing architecture for 20 years, I was suckered back by publisher Wiley's siren song of how the new tenth edition is new, informative, refreshing, up to date, etc. Fooled again. Sure, the Graphic Standards is a fair source of information, but I question the editors' judgement as to what is worth publishing between the wonderfully bound front and rear cover. For example, look up "R-value" in the index and you are directed to 55 words on page 486 how R-value relates to windows and that it's the inverse of U-values. Nothing on the R-value of all exterior skin construction materials or how the R-value relates poorly to thermal massing materials. These things should be very important to architects and are disappointingly absent from the Graphic Standards. However, if you ever need to know what a Zamboni looks like, or need to know the dimensions required for a rodeo barrel race, this is your book! Want an entire page showing ten pieces of gymnastics equipment (pg. 777) or how to draw an ellipse using pen or pencil (pg.999)? Seek no more. Twenty four pages of kitchen utensils and garden tools are still there. This is the best place to find loads of pages of barely useful information of dubious worth.
Once the editors of Graphic Standards discover that a meaningful discussion on R-values in building materials deserves more space than the dimensions of a belt sander, then I might reconsider purchasing a later edition, but I won't hold my breath. Oh, one more thing, for you architects out there working on a Macintosh platform, the accompanying CD-ROM is useless.
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Title: Building Construction Illustrated, 3rd Edition by Francis D. K. Ching, Cassandra Adams ISBN: 0471358983 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 02 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Architectural Graphic Standards for Residential Construction by The American Institute of Architects ISBN: 0471241091 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 24 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $125.00 |
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Title: Building Codes Illustrated: A Guide to Understanding the International Building Code by Francis D. K. Ching, Steven R. Winkel, Steven Winkel, AIA ISBN: 0471099805 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 14 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Interior Graphic Standards by Maryrose McGowan, Kelsey Kruse ISBN: 047140568X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 09 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $199.00 |
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Title: International Building Code 2003 by International Code Council, Delmar Publishers ISBN: 1892395568 Publisher: Intl Conference of Building Officials Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $78.00 |
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