In this volume, 253 archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework for engaging in architectural design.

Concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation, from the basics of "How to Draw a Line" to the complexities of color theory.

This text explores architecture's role in the spatial construction of themed experience design, and provides a new architectural theoretical framework for its social interpretation.

The first in the new series Pocket Photo Books - attractive, immersive, compact photo guides - in which Harry Cory Wright explores one of the most beautiful libraries in the world.

Focusing on buildings of the period between 1418 and 1580 and 35 key architects, this title examines social context, religious beliefs, political power-structures, technical innovation, aesthetic judgement. It includes over 300 photographs, drawings, plans and reconstructions.