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1 comments about Historia del Diseno Grafico.

1. Profesores de diseño gráfico, estudiantes y profesionales que deseen encontrar de manera detallada un buen recorrido por la historia del diseño gráfico, exquisitamente ilustrado en mas de 500 paginas, sin duda deben tener este libro como parte de su colección educativa.
   
   Va desde las pinturas rupestres, el antiguo egipto, renacentismo, art noveau, pop art, hasta el contemporaneo (fecha de publicacion 1997).
   
   Se lo recomiendo, vale cada centavo.

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4 comments about 1001 Traditional Construction Details.

1. Unuseful book for traditional or classical architects.
   Lost money



2. These may very well be the most beautifully-drawn details I have seen in a long time. Granted, there's not much here for a modernist other than some general stuff like pipe supports, signage, flashing and the like, but that's pretty obvious from the title of the book.



3. First, by way of full disclosure, I'm a registered architect with NCARB certification and over 24 years of experience.

   This book is completely frustrating. It holds such promise, or perhaps I should say the author does. He clearly knows his stuff, and there's no question that there's extremely useful information here. But anyone who knows architectural detailing knows that there are many, many aspects of construction that are not even touched on in this volume.

   In all fairness, neither the author nor the publisher claim that this book is all things to all people, but with a total of 1001 details (a figure I trust is accurate - I haven't counted them), one can't help but be disappointed that over 20% of them are all related to custom cabinets, or that there are 30 different examples of window/door elevations all showing brick veneer and stone/brick lintels, with the only difference being the size of the stone. Likewise, there are something close to 20 different door head details, all showing a stone lintel of varying size, brick veneer and wood stud framing.

   Please tell me what the point of this kind of padding is. Why are all of these details necessary when one or two drawings with a few carefully chosen notes can explain the various possible permutations? If you as the reader think you're going to get 1001 details of different construction conditions, you're going to be as disappointed as I was. And the frustrating part of all of this is that the details are good. Damned good. I might quibble with his point of view on text in drawings (he makes a good case for legibility of text through the use of serif fonts rather than the ones that emulate hand drawn "architectural" lettering), but then throws any notion of legibility out the window by clustering all of his notes together with no line spacing between one note and the next. Still, the drawn information is good, just not of the quantity or variety to be worthy of the title "1001...Details." I'm even wrestling with the notion of returning the book, but I'll probably keep it since it does have useful information in it, and I'm a packrat when it comes to that sort of thing. But I won't feel good about it, especially when I think of what this could have been.




4. I was happy to come across this title with hopes that this was a book I could really learn from. Yet as with many other similar books the information presented in the CAD drawings are minimal and of little substance.

   It is surely a waste of money to purchase the CD.

   Did people forget how to actually detail buildings when they stopped drawing by hand?

No comments about Engineering and Computer Graphics Workbook Using SolidWorks 2007.

1 comments about Senior Residences: Designing Retirement Communities for the Future (Wiley Series in Healthcare and Senior Living Design).

1. The book doesn't deliver on presenting a computer application system for evaluating performance. It takes the CCRC's accredition questions and just expands on them. From the information that was presented I not sure if the authors know what an application system is. In any event the book lacks any hard technical information, or performance standards, that can be used for evaluating and designing a project. It's presentation is more like a general business plan from a recent MBA graduate.

3 comments about AutoCAD And Its Applications: Advanced (Autocad 2005).

1. Great for advanced students. Easy to understand with thousands of pictures to help guide you through your studies.



2. I like reading AutoCAD books. I think Shumaker and Madsen are the best authors'. This book guides you through advance designing such as Technical drawings and other information for fast tips.



3. The one book you'll need to use AutoCAD-14 efficiantly.It makes the task, of learning one of the most difficult programs, manageable. It's the text most used at collage. Get it!!

1 comments about Making More of Small Spaces.

1. Excellent. An invaluable tool for anyone rethinking the layout of their apartment or 'small space'. Crafti is one of the great Australian interior design thinkers and commentators.

No comments about An Urban Approach to Climate Sensitive Design: Strategies for the Tropics.