- Hardcover: 1072 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 10th Edition and 3.0 CD Set edition (12 April 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0471391867
- ISBN-13: 978-0471391869
- Product Dimensions: 29.7 x 24.4 x 5.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,105,163 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"But there is no question that libraries with any interest in architecture, building, remodeling, or similar areas must own a copy." (Libraries Unlimited, Spring 2002)
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For the first time ever, the well established and highly praised Architectural Graphic Standards reference book appears simultaneously with its CD–ROM counterpart. Architects and their colleagues now have access to a combination of information, resources and tools which will enable them to work more easily and efficiently to achieve their desired goals.
The Tenth Edition of Architectural Graphic Standards provides new and expanded sections in such areas as Lighting Design, Building Systems, Security Design, Paints and Coatings, and Green Building & ADA Guidelines. CD–ROM Version 3.0 contains all the text and drawings from the book with 85% of those drawings rendered in CAD format. In addition, the CD offers an expanded network of Web links and association e–mail addresses and Web sites.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A must-have for design professionals!,
This review is from: Architectural Graphic Standards (Hardcover)
For over 70 years, architects have been using a valuable reference book, "Architectural Graphic Standards."
"Architectural Graphic Standards" is organized roughly per the CSI Masterformat divisions, including general planning and design data, sitework, concrete, masonry, metals, wood, thermal and moisture protection, doors and windows, finishes, specialties, equipment, furnishings, special construction, conveying systems, mechanical, electrical, sports, energy, history preservation, etc. "Architectural Graphic Standards" has 1072 pages (9.6 x 11.8 inches large format) and numerous line drawings. This new edition has expanded and new content covering contemporary issues. It is a must-have for architects, landscape architects and urban planners, interior designers, engineers or any other building-related design professionals. Gang Chen, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Author of "Architectural Practice Simplified," "LEED GA Exam Guide," "Planting Design Illustrated," and other books on various LEED exams, architecture, and landscape architecture
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A 1932 Heirloom copy of 1st edition, NOT A CURRENT BOOK!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Architectural Graphics Standards for Architects, Engineers, Decorators, Builders and Draftsmen (Paperback)
This text is a coffee-table book or a teaching library text, suitable for impressing novices to architecture how things were actually drawn to be built in 1932. It has no current value, unless one is renovating a building of that era. No code or other standards are included.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Don't Be Fooled by the Enclosed CD-Rom,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Architectural Graphic Standards (Hardcover)
While the Architectural Graphics Standards book is as good a reference as always, the enticement of a CD-Rom is a false promise. You have to purchase an unlock code to access the Rom. Said access code is available for a fee of $425.00. That wasn't disclosed before I purchased it.
123 of 128 people found the following review helpful:
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The Big Red Book,
By Curtis Harkin, AIA - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Architectural Graphic Standards (Hardcover)
It has 154 more pages than the 9th edition, so it has new information, but as you page through it you will find it seems almost identical. They need to keep most of the old data, so I wouldn't take off points for that. You can see the publisher's review for all of the new features: I noticed that the Historic Preservation chapter has been shortened a bit. Potentially, the biggest addition is the CD-ROM, which has CAD files ready to use, and includes pretty much everything from the book. You might think that you are getting all that for the cost of the book, but...no. The "demo" CD comes in a sleeve inside the back cover, and is noted: "Full functionality, Limited data." You can access a drawing of a bar joist, for example. It exports a DWG or DXF file with layers based on line weights. The interface is pretty clear; you don't have to read any instructions to start using it. The CD actually has all of the data, but you have to pay another $425 online to "unlock" it. That could be a bargain, but I suspect that most firms will feel that their own detail library is more applicable to the work they do. Still, $425 represents less than a day's worth of billable hours. Every architect knows the value of this book, and most every architecture firm (in the U.S. anyway) will want at least one copy just to stay current, and because the old one is getting worn out. You might as well get it now, and decide on the CD-ROM later. I'd love to have a special edition set with each page ever published in all of the AGS books, or even just the last 3 or 4. I'd give that 6 stars. 49 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Lots of Hay, but Very Few Needles,
By S. Colley - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Architectural Graphic Standards (Hardcover)
Once again the editors of Graphic Standards have promised a useful reference for architects, and have fallen way short. In architecture school (1972), I purchased the sixth edition and found it better than most reference books for students of architecture. However, even then I noticed many sections of questionable value. Pages and pages of dimensions of designer furniture and kitchenware fall into this category.Recently, after practicing architecture for 20 years, I was suckered back by publisher Wiley's siren song of how the new tenth edition is new, informative, refreshing, up to date, etc. Fooled again. Sure, the Graphic Standards is a fair source of information, but I question the editors' judgement as to what is worth publishing between the wonderfully bound front and rear cover. For example, look up "R-value" in the index and you are directed to 55 words on page 486 how R-value relates to windows and that it's the inverse of U-values. Nothing on the R-value of all exterior skin construction materials or how the R-value relates poorly to thermal massing materials. These things should be very important to architects and are disappointingly absent from the Graphic Standards. However, if you ever need to know what a Zamboni looks like, or need to know the dimensions required for a rodeo barrel race, this is your book! Want an entire page showing ten pieces of gymnastics equipment (pg. 777) or how to draw an ellipse using pen or pencil (pg.999)? Seek no more. Twenty four pages of kitchen utensils and garden tools are still there. This is the best place to find loads of pages of barely useful information of dubious worth. Once the editors of Graphic Standards discover that a meaningful discussion on R-values in building materials deserves more space than the dimensions of a belt sander, then I might reconsider purchasing a later edition, but I won't hold my breath. Oh, one more thing, for you architects out there working on a Macintosh platform, the accompanying CD-ROM is useless. |
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