Student Essentials 2023

The Architecture Portfolio Guidebook shows you how to make portfolios for both academic and professional needs to provide reviewers exactly what they're looking for. In school, architecture curricula nurtures the knowledge and skills to develop design work to varying levels of presentation.

This fully updated Third Edition covers principles of designing buildings that use the sun for heating, wind for cooling, and daylight for natural lighting. Using hundreds of illustrations, this book offers practical strategies that give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings.

The follow-up to the seminal Ways of Seeing, one of the most influential books on art

Architectural Drawing is the classic, comprehensive compendium of architectural drawing. Featuring examples from many high-profile architects and firms, the nearly one-thousand drawings and photos in this book illustrate all of the various types and methods of architectural drawing.

Architectural discourse is dominated by a false dichotomy between design and chance, and governed by the belief that the architect's role is to defend against the indeterminate, this book challenges this position, arguing for the need to develop a more creative and spatial understanding of chance as experience.