Architectural Graphics
by: Francis D. K. Ching
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The completely updated, illustrated bestseller on architectural graphics with over 500,000 copies sold
Architectural Graphics presents a wide range of basic graphic tools and techniques designers use to communicate architectural ideas. Expanding upon the wealth of illustrations and information that have made this title a classic, this Fourth Edition provides expanded and updated coverage of drawing materials, multiview drawings, paraline drawings, and perspective drawings. Also new to this edition is the author's unique incorporation of digital technology into his successful methods. While covering essential drawing principles, this book presents: approaches to drawing section views of building interiors, methods for drawing modified perspectives, techniques for creating accurate shade and shadows, expert styles of freehand sketching and diagramming, and much more.
The completely updated, illustrated bestseller on architectural graphics with over 500,000 copies sold
Architectural Graphics presents a wide range of basic graphic tools and techniques designers use to communicate architectural ideas. Expanding upon the wealth of illustrations and information that have made this title a classic, this Fourth Edition provides expanded and updated coverage of drawing materials, multiview drawings, paraline drawings, and perspective drawings. Also new to this edition is the author's unique incorporation of digital technology into his successful methods. While covering essential drawing principles, this book presents: approaches to drawing section views of building interiors, methods for drawing modified perspectives, techniques for creating accurate shade and shadows, expert styles of freehand sketching and diagramming, and much more.
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- architectural graphics
This book is a lot older than I expected, one of the earlier published but all the same it came quickly, thanks :)
Rating: 
- Great book!
I'm an architecture student from Brazil and i gotta say i just looove this book. I strongly recommend it for students and professionals as well.
Rating: 
- Explains little
I don't know why this book is so popular. It's so hard to follow. The instructions are skimpy (no step by step, just the final product), the verbiage is meant to impress not explain, and it contains the exact same drawings that are in other Ching books, such as Design Drawing. The drawings themselves are complicated, obtuse, and for all the talk of the importance of line weight, they have almost none (making them even harder to read).
Rating: - Uncomplicated, basic
If you are a person like myself whose idea of a perspective drawing is a line of telegraph poles disappearing into thedistance next to a road, then this is the book for you, and me as it turned out.
Starting from the different grade of pencil through the different forms of architectural presentations, with easy to read explinations.
I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who is learning architectural graphics.
Rating: 
- Information is not weighted in a way that makes sense
I know that Ching is revered in the field and is recommended by virtually all, but I'm just not feeling the love, especially for this particular book.The graphics in the book have a "sketchy" look I don't just don't find appealing or inspiring. A more serious problem is the way the information is weighted:there are pages of illustration/discussion about simple things like line weights and triangles, which would lead one to assume this is a beginner's book.That would be fine, but as the book ... Read More
- architectural graphicsThis book is a lot older than I expected, one of the earlier published but all the same it came quickly, thanks :)
- Great book!I'm an architecture student from Brazil and i gotta say i just looove this book. I strongly recommend it for students and professionals as well.
- Explains littleI don't know why this book is so popular. It's so hard to follow. The instructions are skimpy (no step by step, just the final product), the verbiage is meant to impress not explain, and it contains the exact same drawings that are in other Ching books, such as Design Drawing. The drawings themselves are complicated, obtuse, and for all the talk of the importance of line weight, they have almost none (making them even harder to read).
- Uncomplicated, basicIf you are a person like myself whose idea of a perspective drawing is a line of telegraph poles disappearing into thedistance next to a road, then this is the book for you, and me as it turned out.
Starting from the different grade of pencil through the different forms of architectural presentations, with easy to read explinations.
I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who is learning architectural graphics.
- Information is not weighted in a way that makes senseI know that Ching is revered in the field and is recommended by virtually all, but I'm just not feeling the love, especially for this particular book.The graphics in the book have a "sketchy" look I don't just don't find appealing or inspiring. A more serious problem is the way the information is weighted:there are pages of illustration/discussion about simple things like line weights and triangles, which would lead one to assume this is a beginner's book.That would be fine, but as the book ... Read More
