This handbook contains rules and guidelines for the full range of studio work - the work produced in an architectural office rather than in the field or on site. The book covers schematic architectural design, graphic conventions for the production of working drawings - manually and on the computer - and formatting contract drawings, all in graphic form. Charts and graphs show acceptable ranges of components of building technology, while diagrams show logical organizational features of building spaces and systems.

Author Biography

Terry Patterson is a licensed architect, a professor of architecture at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, and the author of several respected books in the field. He has 32 years of professional and teaching experience. He is the author of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Meaning of Materials (Van Nostrand Reinhold), Construction Materials for Architects and Designers (Prentice-Hall), and co-author of Architectural Drawing and Design (Macmillan). He also wrote the Student Workbook and Instructor's Manual for Van Nostrand Reinhold's Construction: Principles, Materials, and Methods. He is a professional member of Building Officials & Code Administrators International, Inc. Always thorough in his research, he based this current book not only on his own extensive experience, but also on his detailed study of change proposals and public hearings for the new code, the three model codes on which the new code is based, and on numerous interviews and surveys with other architects and code officials.