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The Best Design Books for Everyone on Your Gift List

Dwell

There are few things more satisfying than leafing through a beautifully designed and thoughtful book about a subject that is dear to your heart, as design is to mine. The books on this list are a great resource for anyone interested in design, architecture, color, or the way all three inform the way we look at the world around us.

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Mapping Your Firm’s Strategy: Visual Business Frameworks for Architects and Designers

Architizer

There are endless books and online resources on various approaches to strategic planning. Visual business models can be a powerful tool for creative professionals, like architects, who often prefer to communicate through drawings and diagrams. So, where do you start?

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Architectural Tricks of the Trade | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

This technique works on any large format sheet of paper. This technique also leaves you with an exposed title block along the outside edge of the paper which means no unfolding is necessary to see the nougaty drawing center. I didn’t know there was a German graphic standards book – same as the US version but in metric?

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Architectural Sketches | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

There are many different styles and techniques that architects use when graphically working through problems. This is really a diagram of parts to be resolved … pretty sure I would need a header (structure) where the window connects with the roof plane. This sketch is actually an earlier iteration of the 4th sketch in this post.

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RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHEON

Shades of Grey

I bought a book about the Pantheon on Kindle. Read a book. Anyway, there is a diagram in this book that illustrates this generating geometry of cube and sphere. The techniques are similar, but the aims … not so much. This family will scale, based on a single input: the width of that original cube. Collect images.

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Give the Gifts of Crafts to Your Favorite DIY Dilettante

Dwell

Thick, robust leads resist cracking and chipping, making them perfect for adult coloring books. This book will inspire you to build on your skills and find your own personal style. These artisan women have skills and traditional techniques that have been passed down through generations. Lightfast, richly saturated pigments.

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Manchester School of Architecture presents 12 architecture and urbanism projects

Deezen

Seagull's experiential design knowledge is collected into a recipe book reimaging gardens and the seaside.". Research is here understood as a range of techniques employed to generate knowledge about design that can be mobilised in design. How can places, citizens and architects challenge destiny? Student: Megan Pledger.

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