the architects handbook

by Dimitris Kottas

An architect?s head is filled with thousands of weight and resistance, size and specifications, acoustic protection, properties, and on and on. How can a busy professional keep all those details straight? With The Architect?s Handbook, an easy-to-use, exhaustive reference book packed with all the facts. Conversion tables, legal standards, technical specs, properties of material, and much more put all the information at an architect?s fingertips, any time, any place. Includes detailed plans, drawings, and sketches, and 80 charts full of handy technical information. .

Genres: Architecture

200 pages, Paperback

First published October 16, 2007

Reviews

[Nada Elfeituri · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the most useful and practical 'handbook' for architects I've found so far. I use the word handbook in quotes, because the author obviously had to skimp on many topics in order to avoid the book becoming another Neufert. But he did cover a wide range of topics, from basics like urban symbols and perspective drawings, to programming diagrams of different functions, as well as a wide range of charts and several other useful facts.
This was particularly useful for me in my early years of architecture school because it's easy to flip through to find the information you need. Much of the basics are there. Everything is clear and understandable, and I've found myself going back to it over and over. Definitely a book I always keep in my work bag, I highly recommend it especially to architecture students.