Building Construction: Project Management, Construction Administration, Drawings, Specs, Detailing Tips, Schedules, Checklists, and Secrets Others Don’t Tell You: Architectural Practice Simplified, 2E
Great Source of InformationI really enjoyed reading "Architectural Practice Simplified." The language is simple and coveys a lot...a fabulous survival guide for all of us.Thumbs up...----- DharGang Chen hits it on the spot!Go to any page of this book ("Architectural Practice Simplified") and you will find something useful...a must read and must have...----- Prashanth K. MahakaliA Practical Guide...a complete and helpful checklist for day to day architectural practice. It is easy to understand, remember, and apply.-----Yingchun Lu "Eileen"A great book!!!I found all the check lists very helpful.It summarizes all aspects of the business of architecture, from client interaction to project management.----- AngieIt is all here: a practical and straightforward guide, highly recommended!The transition from Architectural School is difficult for most young professionals for a number of reasons, such as:1. Architectural education is not compatible with architectural practice: what you learn in school is different from what is needed for your job.2. You can read books to teach yourself about architectural practice. Some large architectural offices have a copy of the "The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice (AHPP)," but it has too many pages (1028 pages), and is too complicated. It is comprehensive, and a lot of the information is good to know, but you rarely deal with it on a daily basis. When you do need some information and zoom in to look for it in a certain section, AHPP is not detailed enough, and it is not tailored to your needs.Most offices will only have one set of AHPP for everyone to share since it is expensive (about $250 each). Nobody really have time to read it from cover to cover either: it simply has too many pages, and you do not have so much time to plough through it.3. If you have questions regarding your project, you could ask more senior staffs in your firm, but you do not want to ask "stupid" questions and make yourself look like you do not know want you are doing. You do not want to ask too many questions to annoy others either. As a result, your professional growth will be delayed."Architectural Practice Simplified" is a great book. It covers a lot of information that you use daily in an architect's office, it is concise and to the point, and covers just the right amount of information that you need to know to thrive in the construction industry.For example, it covers entitlement, ALTA and CALTA survey, consultant coordination, governing agencies coordination, green buildings, marketing, the procedures of handling shop drawings and submittals, what to look for when you review shop drawings and submittals, what are the key elements in a contract between the architect and the owner, and a contract between the owner and the contractor, what to look for when you do a quality control of plans and specifications, sheet-by-sheet checklists for architectural plans and consultants' plans, how to create or modify a specifications book, how to deal with contractor's change order request, what are the key elements in the certificate of substantial completion, and collections, etc.You probably lean more from this book about architectural practice than what you can learn in five years in an architectural school."Architectural Practice Simplified" works like a great mentor for young professionals, it is also very useful for experienced architects. It is a practical and straightforward guide. Highly recommended! -----Brad Chandler--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.