Design and Construction Books

For anyone who is interested in golf course architecture, this book is a must for your library. Contains a complete index (a continuous work-in-process) of architects and their courses. Essentially every course in the world (including those which are no longer in existance), is listed including its location, date of orgin and the architects who created it also the provider of any known substantial (professional) renovation work. It must take a tremendous effort for the authors to keep this book up to date. I hope the fact that this book is no longer in print indicates that the authors are hard at work. If you do not have a copy find one, if you have to go the the library and photocopy theirs (but bring a stack of dimes its very long).

Sanford Hohauser's book on modelmaking is the greatest how-to book I've ever encountered in general, because he tells you exactly what you want and need to know. Most people try, but fail. This book has such a clear mission: to teach you how to build models, no exceptions. You can start out, as I did, having LITERALLY NO experience in modelbuilding. But Sanford Hohauser tells you what tools you should get for which types of projects, how to use them, what kinds of materials to use for what kinds of models, how to photograph the model, how long things should take, and much much more. Great B&W photographs throughout, drawings, diagrams, lists, index, reference compilations: The 200+ pages of this book tell you what you need to know, and no less.

This is an excellent book. I'm always searching for inspiration for new bird house designs, and the examples shown here are spectacular.

This is a great book. I am an engineer who has since gone into another profession in which clear and concise writing plays an important role. My drafting experience is from pre-CAD days and included 8 years of intermittent drafting to implement my own work. I have a current need to create architectural drawings for a large personal project for use by an architectural firm and have retained and purchased Autocad so that we could "speak the same language". I looked at a number of books to help educate me in this new field and purchased some of them. A number of these books deal with the nuts and bolts of the Autocad language, which I am now comfortable with. None of these books, however, have provided a usable and straightforward framework to help me implement the powers of Autocad to create architectural drawings. James Snyder's book does this, and it is by far the best I have used or looked at for this purpose. It is clearly written, the examples are helpful and goal oriented, and as a whole his book communicates the necessary elements of architectural drafting in an enlightening manner.

This book is an outstanding display of custom idea's for the entire home. The photo's bring to life 1000's of interior and exterior shots, that give you idea's from all over North America. Different styles, materials, concepts, roof lines, sidings and unique designs are fully explored throughout the book. If you want idea's while building a custom home, that are state of the art, and displayed with beautiful photographic pictures that you can build from, this is an excellent book to have. The text fully explains the use of materials and explain sections of the pictures that I would not generally have seen. I have only just received my copy of Architectural Inspirational and have received some excellent feedback from my friends and neighbours whom I have shared my recent purchase.

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Its the classic text - still has not been surpassed in all these years. There are many of us glass artists whose lives were changed by the photos and thoughts enclosed in this book.

I found Nancy Berry's Architectural Hardware such a great design tool that I had to have this book as well. Great series!

Robert Fitzgerald has captured the essence of Mediterranean style in this superb book. Like his other masterpieces, Art Nouveau and Italian Country, Robert combines exquisite photos with enlightening prose. This book is a true pleasure.

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