Architectural Drafting for Interior Designers

by Lydia Sloan Cline

Beginning interior designers can learn how to graphically communicate their ideas with a resource that is designed specifically for them. While traditional drafting books focus on architectural and engineering readers, Architectural Drafting for Interior Designers, Second Edition, eliminates irrelevant coverage and incorporates material and examples that are meaningful to today's interior designers. This book also addresses the specific needs of beginning interior designers by focusing on topics needed before AutoCAD is even introduced, such as how to draw a floor plan, how to use it to create an interior elevation, and how to understand the relationship between 2D and 3D drawings. Updated to include a new chapter on integrating software with hand drawings, and with content thematically reorganized, this edition is more comprehensive and intuitive than ever. The only book that is written to the standards of the National Council for Interior Design Qualifications (NCIDQ) and interior design trade associations like the National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA), this will provide readers with a strong, standards-based foundation in interior design.

520 pages, Paperback

First published July 3, 2014

Reviews

[djreggiereg Mas Reg]

I'm in my building phase after purchasing my last home. I like technology but not the fact that they go obsolete several years later. I have tons(metaphorically writing only) of books and Terabytes(literally writing) of PDF's iBooks and Amazon Books. Now I'm into building things around my home that will last a lifetime. I've traveled the world with my Uncle Sam and 30 years later I'm hoping to relax in and out of my home building things and when complete..."I will relax by traveling the world by reading old and new books." I've studied and worked in the aviation industry and learned the basics of schematic and block diagrams but not the technical stuff in manufacturing. My job is to repair and to upkeep an aircraft, never learned the design part. But maybe my learned basics will help me design things around my home? Is this book be the thing for me? If its going to keep it simple and walk me into using things by hand, then yes. I have an infinite supply of things I want to build stored in my brain and trying to explain it is next to impossible, but if I was to master drawing things my thoughts would be viewed by others(building inspectors, coworkers and family). Maybe after learning this subject I will go to a computer based product.