Product Description: An easy-to-use illustrated guide to building codes for residential structuresAs the construction industry moves to a single set of international building codes, architects and construction professionals need an interpretive guide to understand how the building code affects the early design of specific projects...read more

Product Description: A well-informed look at the human rights situation in China, published to coincide with - but not exclusively for - the Olympics

Product Description: Get this practical, illustrated guide to the International Building Code.With the publication of the new International Building Code, the building industry is moving toward a single universal set of construction codes, rather than the three regional codes previously in use...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The completely updated, illustrated bestseller on architectural graphics with over 500,000 copies soldArchitectural Graphics presents a wide range of basic graphic tools and techniques designers use to communicate architectural ideas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Drawing stimulates the mind to think and can make visible those aspects which cannot be seen by the naked eye or captured on film by a camera." - From the Introduction to Sketches from JapanThe art of the travel sketchbook from one of the world's most talented graphic communicators...read more

Product Description: This book chronicles the Li family of Hong Kong, whose members have been prominent for five generations as businessmen, bankers, legislators, and as prominent players on both the British and Chinese sides during the transition from British to Chinese sovereignty.

Product Description: This is comprehensive introduction to drawing and more sheds new light on the relationship between perception, drawing, and design. Design Drawing covers the traditional basics of drawing, including line, shape, tone, and space. The supplemental CD-ROM contains information and instruction that elucidates a broad range of design drawing concepts through animation, video, and three-dimensional models...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Comprehensive and up-to-date-the classic visual guide to the basics of building constructionFor twenty-five years, Building Construction Illustrated has offered an outstanding introduction to the principles of building construction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A Chinese-American journalist traces his family roots back nine hundred years, from the twelfth century to the present, in a personal genealogical quest that parallels the political and social history of the Chinese civilization

Interprets form as the architect's basic tool, analyzes a wide range of models, and examines each model's specific application in history, demonstrating the timelessness of basic architectural elements and principles