As a beginning design student, you need to learn to think like a designer, to visualize ideas and concepts, as well as objects. In this book, Balmer and Swisher illustrate how you can create and use diagrams to clarify your understanding of both particular projects and organizing principles and ideas.

This book is not about construction, although you will learn about building codes and practices. It is not about tactics, although the information gained by knowing a floor plan will undoubtedly affect them. Instead, this book is designed to provide a quick and simple method of confidently determining floor plans by using outside architectural features. It assumes no knowledge of construction or tactics and is designed to be useful whether it is read cover to cover or occasionally referred to as a reference. It provides time-tested, tried and true principles that any tactician can use to determine avenues of approach, observation and fields of fire, obstacles, and cover or concealment, not to mention where a suspect might be most vulnerable. Using this essential tool for quick and clear comprehension of tactical diagramming, even a novice tactical planner will learn to use windows, doors, vents and other clues to confidently determine interior features. After reading this book, it will be clear that the proverbial "glass house" is in the mind's eye!

An architecture portfolio designed by Alex Hogrefe describing 4 original projects with a focus on unique representational techniques and styles.

The trendsetting architect Rem Koolhaas has carried it out to perfection, whereas the next generation of international stars refined it even more, giving us the unconventional presentation of designs and ideas in the form of diagrams. This method of presentation is easy to understand when dealing with the client and can be communicated internationally, beyond language and cultural barriers - a product of our globalised world. However, diagrams are now much more than explanations and form their own discipline in creative professions connected to design and construction. What looks simple is in fact a complex matter. This title in the series Construction and Design Manual is in its second edition and assembles 384 pages of diagrams by avant-garde architects and designers who specialise in public space, landscape architecture and urban planning.

Diagram is one of the most used words in contemporary architecture and urban design. It's almost a common understanding of using diagrams to explain the design concept. However, it is more than simply showing the audience to help them understand the idea. Diagramming is an element of design in itself. On more than 750 pages this manual showcases diagrams of avant-garde architects and designers from all over the world, among others: LAVA, JDS Architects, Jürgen Mayer H. Architects, UNStudio, Périphérique, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group.

Diagram is one of the most used words in contemporary architecture and urban design. It's almost a common understanding of using diagrams to explain the design concept. However, it is more than simply showing the audience to help them understand the idea. Diagramming is an element of design in itself. On more than 750 pages this manual showcases diagrams of avant-garde architects and designers from all over the world: 2TR ARCHITETTURA, AA+U partnership for architecture, AMID (cero9), Andreas Angelidakis, art and urbanism, Atelier Phileas, Axi:Ome, Bernd Kniess Architects Urban Planners, b4architects, Tiago Barros, beva, BIG, Bureau des Mesarchitectures, Cheng+Snyder, CJ Lim/Studio 8 Architects, data architects, EBPC, ECDM, EM2N, Ecosistema Urbano+TECTUM, Emilio Marin Architect, Enrique Arenas Laorga & Luis Basabe Montalvo, Laura Federici, Galvez+Wieczorek, GEOTECTURA, Glockawa Rennie Architects, Guallart Architects, i29 interior architects, J. Mayer H. Architects, Jay is working., JDS Architects, Jungwoo Ji, kadawittfeldarchitektur, Kim Kai-chun, Florian Krieger, laN+, LAVA, Leon11 Architects, lotti+Pavarani Architetti, ma0, Manuelle Gautrand Architecture, Marco Hemmerling architecture design, Maurice Mentjens Design, MoHen Design International, Moho Architects, Moonbalsso +DN, mxg architects, Nabito Arquitectura S.C.P., nArchitects, NL Architects, nodo17 Architects, Obra Architects, ONE ARCHITECTURE, PEG office for landscape+architecture, Jorge Pereira, Peripheriques architects, plattformberlin, PLY Architecture, PSA, R&Sie architects, Reiser+Umemoto RUR Architecture PC, ReL̲oad, Responsive Systems Group, Sadar Vuga Arhitekti, Samoo Architects & Engineers, Serie Architects, servo, Sansk Design Studio, sga:sean godsell architects, SMAQ, SO Architecture, SPACEGROUP, studio asylum, Studio Makkink & Bey bv, Studio Ramin Visch, the next ENTERprise, UNStudio, Vincent Callebaut Architecture, VMX Arch