Random House New Releases - Architecture - Design & Drafting

Drawing Ideas by William Bardel

2013-11-19T00:30:00-05:00

Drawing Ideas A Hand-Drawn Approach for Better Design
Written by Mark Baskinger and William Bardel

Hardcover, 304 pages | Watson-Guptill | Design - Graphic Arts - General; Architecture - Design & Drafting; Art - Drawing | $40.00 | 978-0-385-34462-3 (0-385-34462-7)

A primer for design professionals across all disciplines that helps them create compelling and original concept designs by hand--as opposed to on the computer--in order to foster collaboration and win clients. In today's design world, technology for expressing ideas is pervasive; CAD models and renderings created with computer software provide an easy option for creating highly rendered pieces. However, the accessibility of this technology means that fewer designers know how to draw by hand, express their ideas spontaneously, and brainstorm effectively. In a unique board binding that mimics a sketchbook, Drawing Ideas provides a complete foundation in the techniques and methods for effectively communicating to an audience through clear and persuasive drawings.

Drawing Ideas by William Bardel

2013-11-19T00:30:00-05:00

Drawing Ideas A Hand-Drawn Approach for Better Design
Written by Mark Baskinger and William Bardel

eBook, 304 pages | Watson-Guptill | Design - Graphic Arts - General; Architecture - Design & Drafting; Art - Drawing | $19.99 | 978-0-385-34452-4 (0-385-34452-X)

A primer for design professionals across all disciplines that helps them create compelling and original concept designs by hand--as opposed to on the computer--in order to foster collaboration and win clients. In today's design world, technology for expressing ideas is pervasive; CAD models and renderings created with computer software provide an easy option for creating highly rendered pieces. However, the accessibility of this technology means that fewer designers know how to draw by hand, express their ideas spontaneously, and brainstorm effectively.In a unique board binding that mimics a sketchbook, Drawing Ideas provides a complete foundation in the techniques and methods for effectively communicating to an audience through clear and persuasive drawings.

French Accents by Erin Swift

2013-04-09T00:30:00-05:00

French Accents At Home with Parisian Objects and Details
Written by Erin Swift

Hardcover, 224 pages | Potter Style | Design - Interior Decorating; Architecture - Interior Design; Architecture - Design & Drafting | $40.00 | 978-0-307-98530-9 (0-307-98530-X)

This lavishly illustrated volume shows you how to choose fabulous French decorating details to create interiors with an unforgettable sense of sophistication and charm. French details are the key to achieving the effortless chic of the French home.

The first step is to understand how the French see—blending rich tradition with whimsy to achieve interiors that are as comfortable as they are stunning. Within these pages, acclaimed stylist Erin Swift offers a look at the exquisite homes of renowned designers, architects, and artists, simplifying the elements that define each room, such as color, art and furnishings, objects and accents, structure, and texture. Sharing the homeowner’s visions, she also highlights hundreds of fascinating and unconventional decorating details that you can draw inspiration from:

·         Hang vintage board games—or a collection of clocks, each set to the time in a favorite travel destination—on the wall
·         Balance impressive architecture with slipcovers in primary colors
·         Highlight antiques by tucking them into a kitchen or bathroom—and display crystal or a stack of books like everyday sculpture
·         Elevate a pitched ceiling or a corner with artwork to make an event out of a space that would otherwise be overlooked

Galleries featuring dozens of choices for molding, stone and tile flooring, frames, paint colors, doorknobs, and textiles offer even more ways to add a French touch.

With a comprehensive resource section, hundreds of photographs that will inspire those on any budget, and countless practical ideas, French Accents is the ultimate celebration of Parisian decorating in all of its ephemeral, individual, and incontrovertible style.

Landscape Graphics by Grant Reid

2012-08-01T00:30:00-05:00

Landscape Graphics
Written by Grant Reid

eBook, 208 pages | Watson-Guptill | Architecture - Design & Drafting; Architecture - Landscape | $16.99 | 978-0-7704-3418-2 (0-7704-3418-5)

Announcing the new revised edition of the classic industry reference! Landscape Graphics is the architect’s ultimate guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear instruction on graphic language and the design process, the basics of drafting, lettering, freehand drawing and conceptual diagramming, perspective drawing, section elevations, and more. It also features carefully sequenced exercises, a complete file of graphic symbols for sections and perspectives, and a handy appendix of conversions and equivalents.

Living with Wine by Alice Feiring

2009-10-27T00:30:00-05:00

Living with Wine Passionate Collectors, Sophisticated Cellars, and Other Rooms for Entertaining, Enjoying, and Imbibing
Written by Samantha Nestor and Alice Feiring

Hardcover, 256 pages | Potter Style | House & Home; Antiques & Collectibles - Wine; Architecture - Design & Drafting | $75.00 | 978-0-307-40789-4 (0-307-40789-6)

America’s love of wine has spurred a collecting and entertaining phenomenon.

Some of America’s most passionate oenophiles have re-invented the wine cellar as an inviting and beautiful part of the home.

True collectors love to share their passion, and this book offers a tour of their distinctive cellars. Created with the help of some of the best designers in the field, these rooms blend luxurious design aesthetics with ingenious storage solutions. The thirty stunning spaces featured include a traditional wood cellar finished with rich paneling and ornate lighting; a cathedral-like space that showcases ironwork inspired by the French Quarter of New Orleans (and has a secret entry from a library inside the house); an inviting living room lined with temperature-controlled wood alcoves behind insulated glass; and an Old World terra-cotta cellar–within a sprawling entertainment center that includes a wet bar, a billiards table, and a tasting room.

Living with Wine reveals the details that make the cellars a welcoming place to return–from the materials, artwork, lighting, and cutting-edge preservation technology to the way the space harmonizes with the rest of the house. From the Bay Area to Boston, Napa to New York, homeowners such as Nancy and John Lasseter, the founder of Pixar Studios; American Idol host and TV and radio personality Ryan Seacrest; and entrepreneur Rick Ryan share insights into what they collect, why they started collecting, and how they designed their spaces to fit their passion.

This elegant volume shows what it means to love and collect wine.

The Edwardian Home by Yvonne Bell

2005-03-01T00:30:00-05:00

The Edwardian Home
Written by Yvonne Bell

Trade Paperback, 56 pages | Shire | Architecture - Domestic; Architecture - Design & Drafting | $12.95 | 978-0-7478-0631-8 (0-7478-0631-4)

Landscape Graphics by Grant Reid

2002-09-01T00:30:00-05:00

Landscape Graphics
Written by Grant Reid

Trade Paperback, 208 pages | Watson-Guptill | Architecture - Design & Drafting; Architecture - Landscape | $24.95 | 978-0-8230-7333-7 (0-8230-7333-5)

A Master Course in Feng-Shui by Eva Wong

2001-07-17T00:30:00-05:00

A Master Course in Feng-Shui
Written by Eva Wong

Trade Paperback, 304 pages | Shambhala | Architecture - Design & Drafting; Body, Mind & Spirit - Feng Shui; Architecture - Interior Design | $34.95 | 978-1-57062-584-8 (1-57062-584-0)

This fully illustrated, comprehensive workbook is designed primarily for homeowners, renters, architects, and business owners who want to put feng-shui to practical personal use—to choose a home, build a house, select an office, or find a retail space. Real estate agents, interior designers, and architects will also find it useful as a reference manual. The text and exercises proceed in systematic fashion from basic principles to specific projects, covering the following lessons:

   • Evaluating the landscape and external environment by using the techniques of the Landform School
   • Using the geomantic compass to chart patterns of energy within a building
   • Planning the usage of space
   • Matching occupants to a house
   • Deciding on the placement of furniture
   • Improving the feng-shui of a building with countermeasures, enhancers, and renovations
   • Building a new house
   • Choosing or designing an apartment, business suite, or retail space

Feng-Shui by Eva Wong

1996-07-15T00:30:00-05:00

Feng-Shui
Written by Eva Wong

Trade Paperback, 288 pages | Shambhala | Architecture - Design & Drafting; Body, Mind & Spirit - Feng Shui; Architecture - Interior Design | $29.95 | 978-1-57062-100-0 (1-57062-100-4)

The first complete, in-depth course in the traditional Chinese art of harmonious design for interiors, buildings, and sites—including instructions for making your own geomantic compass for feng-shui readings. Deeply rooted in Taoist and shamanic origins, feng-shui is not simply a list of directives for building auspicious structures or arranging interiors for good luck. It is the art of reading the patterns of the universe and living in harmony with the environment. With 200 photos and diagrams.

From Eco-Cities to Living Machines by John Todd

1994-04-18T00:30:00-05:00

From Eco-Cities to Living Machines Principles of Ecological Design
Written by Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd

Trade Paperback, 224 pages | North Atlantic Books | Architecture - Design & Drafting; Nature - Ecology; Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection | $19.95 | 978-1-55643-150-0 (1-55643-150-3)

From Eco-cities to Living Machines presents the ecologically-based working designs and prototypes of biologist John Todd and writer and environmental activist Nancy Todd. Since 1969 with the founding of New Alchemy Institute on Cape Cod, the Todds have become known world-wide for their leadership in the restoration of pure water, bioremediation of wild aquatic environments, food production, and urban design. In this new book, the Todds further develop the idea of Eco-cities, designs for integrating agriculture and flowing pure water into green urban settings and introduce Living Machines, a family of technologies for purifying wastewaters to tertiary quality effluent without chemicals. Provocative and grounded firmly in the principles of biodiversity, the Todds' work encompasses site-specific technological interventions and systems-wide ecological planners and designers, environmental economists, and systems-based engineers working to change the way we utilize production, technology, water and energy.

Sketching and Rendering of Interior Spaces by Ivo Drpic

1988-07-01T00:30:00-05:00

Sketching and Rendering of Interior Spaces
Written by Ivo Drpic

Trade Paperback, 176 pages | Watson-Guptill | Architecture - Design & Drafting; Architecture | $29.95 | 978-0-8230-4853-3 (0-8230-4853-5)

Sketching and Rendering Interior Spaces is a complete illustrated course in sketching interior spaces. Ivo Drpic demonstrates how, using simple equipment and easy-to-master techniques, anyone can progress from free-flowing doodles to completely professional, presentation-quality renderings—saving time and the high cost of using professional renderers.

Interior Graphic and Design Standards by S.C. Reznikoff

1986-10-01T00:30:00-05:00

Interior Graphic and Design Standards
Written by S.C. Reznikoff

Hardcover, 624 pages | Watson-Guptill | Architecture - Design & Drafting | $95.00 | 978-0-8230-7298-9 (0-8230-7298-3)

This book, the most comprehensive and basic working tool available to the design professional, encompasses every area of expertise required in the practice of contemporary interior design.

Architects, interior designers, drafters, specifiers, and designers and manufacturers of building materials, furnishings, and equipment for interiors will find essential specification data and thousands of fully metricated, dimensioned drawings of interiors and the components of interiors. The range is vast: materials that range from hinges for cabinet doors to ceramic tiles for tub enclosures; drawings of standard and custom millwork for hundreds of specific interior applications; detailed dimensioned plans for custom casework; fully dimensioned room layouts keyed to drawings of individual details; illustrations, with dimensions, of standard and special-purpose furnishings and equipment. Throughout, acknowledged industry standards are given—as are specifications and notes about usage. Vital information about flammability and life safety factors and accessible barrier-free requirements is also given wherever it is applicable.

To facilitate quick access, the book is organized in three parts, with CSI Masterformat code numbers used throughout. Part one covers standard dimensions of manufactured interior components, including basic graphic and design elements; architectural millwork and hardware; partitions and doors; windows and skylights; interior finishes, specialties, and equipment; stairs and ramps; and lighting.

The second part deals with residential graphic and design standards, and the third part covers commercial graphic and design standards—public washrooms, commercial offices, banks, retail spaces, health studios, restaurants and bars, hotels and motels, medical and dental offices, libraries, and places of worship.

A complete resource book, Interior Graphic and Design Standards includes lists of industry associations, glossaries of terms, size charts, conversion tables, and practical checklists of steps in the design process. There is an extensive keyword index, giving page references as well as CSI Masterformat code numbers, and a complete alphabetical listing of data sources.

Architectural Sketching and Rendering by Stephen Kliment

1984-05-01T00:30:00-05:00

Architectural Sketching and Rendering Techniques for Designers and Artists
Edited by Stephen Kliment

Trade Paperback, 192 pages | Watson-Guptill | Architecture - Design & Drafting | $24.99 | 978-0-8230-7053-4 (0-8230-7053-0)

Do you want to become more confident sketching buildings with a pencil or pen? How about refining your skill in rendering the projects you are designing? Whether you are a designer, an architect, an artist or a student interested in architecture, this volume, filled with a broad range of sketching and rendering techniques and styles, offers the complete intermediate level of instruction that you need.

How to achieve effects with pencils and pens is covered in Part 1. The various types of media, including charcoal and ink brushes, are discussed in detail, as well as the different papers, boards, and accessories you'll need. A series of exercises shows you how to draw lines, shapes, textures, and tones and then combine them in renderings. A special sequence is included on how to do freehand perspective drawing.

Techniques and examples of capturing buildings, interiors, and land- and cityscapes are thoroughly explored in Part 2. For instance, drawings of such highly respected architects as Henry Hobson Richardson, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, Raymond Hood, Julia Morgan, Eliel Saarinen, Mies van der Rohe, Robert Venturi, and Michael Graves are included in the section on buildings. Different types of furniture for the home are shown in the section on interiors, with a special emphasis on the traditional to meet today's renewed interest in historic styles. The array of interior spaces ranges from the S. Maria Maggiore in Rome to Paul Rudolph's Chapel for Tuskegee Institute. Drawing trees (from palms to pines), water, skies, clouds, snow are covered in the section on landscapes, and a special demonstration sequence shows you how to draw cityscapes from photographs.

Three personal approaches are given an in-depth review in Part 3. Hugh Ferriss is known for the soaring skyscrapers he so dramatically rendered during the 20s when they were first being built. The process that the designer goes through in creating a finished project is shown in Norman Diekman's work, while the wit and whimsy of Paul Hogarth's caricatures show you how to make even tired wooden buildings sag with interest.

Profusely illustrated with 325 illustrations, Architectural Sketching and Rendering is required reading if you want to learn how to create your own successful drawings.

Random House New Releases - Architecture - Design & Drafting

Drawing Ideas by William Bardel

Drawing Ideas A Hand-Drawn Approach for Better DesignWritten by Mark Baskinger and William Bardel

Drawing Ideas by William Bardel

Drawing Ideas A Hand-Drawn Approach for Better DesignWritten by Mark Baskinger and William Bardel

French Accents by Erin Swift

French Accents At Home with Parisian Objects and DetailsWritten by Erin Swift

Landscape Graphics by Grant Reid

Landscape Graphics Written by Grant Reid

Living with Wine by Alice Feiring

Living with Wine Passionate Collectors, Sophisticated Cellars, and Other Rooms for Entertaining, Enjoying, and ImbibingWritten by Samantha Nestor and Alice Feiring

The Edwardian Home by Yvonne Bell

The Edwardian Home Written by Yvonne Bell

Landscape Graphics by Grant Reid

Landscape Graphics Written by Grant Reid

A Master Course in Feng-Shui by Eva Wong

A Master Course in Feng-Shui Written by Eva Wong

Feng-Shui by Eva Wong

Feng-Shui Written by Eva Wong

From Eco-Cities to Living Machines by John Todd

From Eco-Cities to Living Machines Principles of Ecological DesignWritten by Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd

Sketching and Rendering of Interior Spaces by Ivo Drpic

Sketching and Rendering of Interior Spaces Written by Ivo Drpic

Interior Graphic and Design Standards by S.C. Reznikoff

Interior Graphic and Design Standards Written by S.C. Reznikoff

Architectural Sketching and Rendering by Stephen Kliment

Architectural Sketching and Rendering Techniques for Designers and ArtistsEdited by Stephen Kliment

Drawing Ideas A Hand-Drawn Approach for Better Design
Written by Mark Baskinger and William Bardel

Drawing Ideas A Hand-Drawn Approach for Better Design
Written by Mark Baskinger and William Bardel

French Accents At Home with Parisian Objects and Details
Written by Erin Swift

Landscape Graphics
Written by Grant Reid

Living with Wine Passionate Collectors, Sophisticated Cellars, and Other Rooms for Entertaining, Enjoying, and Imbibing
Written by Samantha Nestor and Alice Feiring

The Edwardian Home
Written by Yvonne Bell

Landscape Graphics
Written by Grant Reid

A Master Course in Feng-Shui
Written by Eva Wong

Feng-Shui
Written by Eva Wong

From Eco-Cities to Living Machines Principles of Ecological Design
Written by Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd

Sketching and Rendering of Interior Spaces
Written by Ivo Drpic

Interior Graphic and Design Standards
Written by S.C. Reznikoff

Architectural Sketching and Rendering Techniques for Designers and Artists
Edited by Stephen Kliment