Building Construction Illustrated

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Building Construction Illustrated

author:Francis D. K. Ching, Cassandra Adams
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publisher:John Wiley & Sons
released:October 17, 2000
isbn:0471358983
isbn-13:9780471358985
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A great book for architectural novice! - Rated 5/5
I read this book in library when I was studying in University of Southern California in Los Angeles and was looking for a book on architecture in real world. I loved it, I bought it many years later simply because I loved to have it in my book collection. It turned out to be a very good buy. The illustrations are great! Ching has a great talent to simplify complicated issues and make them very easy to understand.

Gang Chen, Author of "Planting Design Illustrated"


Avoid - Rated 1/5
Idiot overseas lecturer recommended this- and then failed anyone who referred to it.Very pretty, but useless because American- use Chudley so that your work conforms to regs. Waste of money...grrrr.


Very good - with one caveat - Rated 4/5
Excellent book, good graphics, concise yet comprehensive - but it is an American book, so U.K. readers should back it up with something like Chudley/Greeno's "Building Construction Handbook".


Still a classic after twenty-five years - Rated 5/5

I bought the first edition of this book years ago and what attracted me to it was the very accessible way it was produced, it just looked so inviting. Francis Ching writes about technical matters in a simple straightforward style and Cassandra Adams illustrations are a joy to look at. She produced the entire book (except for the bar-code) by hand, cover, title page, contents, index and drew over a thousand technical illustrations and even hand wrote the detailed captions. This latest updated edition uses the same illustrations but the text is now typeset in a typeface (Tecton, I think) very similar to her handwritten style.

As other reviewers have said this is not a book for the DIY handyman but a guide to construction basics (though essentially in the US) chapters deal with the site, the building, foundations, floors, walls, roofs, moisture protection, doors and windows, finish work, mechanical and electrical, materials. The thirty-two page Appendix gives addition technical information, followed by a ten page index.

I do have one very minor criticism of this latest edition though, for some odd reason the publisher's have decided to print all the illustrations in a tint of black which detracts them from their original beauty. However this will not stop readers from enjoying and learning from a unique looking book that can hardly be improved on. A masterpiece.


Helpful architect's reference - Rated 4/5
This book gives simple guides to design work. Like a simplified "Graphic Standards". Ching offers super illustrations, lots of details and answers a lot of questions for me as an architecture student. I recommend to all designers.

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