How's it going guys? In this video we will be talking about my top 5 must have architecture books for school or architectural practice. The first three books in this list are the books that I used in order to come up with the science from conceptualization to final plan. So here we go. Okay so the first book that I am going to show you guys is called Time Saver Standards for Building Types by Joseph DeCherra and Michael J. Crossby. When you need to design a certain building, this is the first book that you will look into to create bubble diagrams and then schematic plans. This book is basically a guide to standard requirements, essential design criteria and standard measurements you need in order to prepare preliminary designs. Okay so what I like about this book is that it is divided into general building classifications like residential, educational, cultural, etc. etc. you know all those stuff. And within those classifications it is further divided into more specific building types for example under recreation and entertainment we could see bowling alleys. So in here we could find various information such as the width of a bowling lane, the building depth and also the spatial requirements of a bowling alley like a promenade, how do you pronounce it. Did you know that a bowling alley needs a promenade, promenade? You probably did but I didn't know that. What's a promenade anyway like some sort of fruit? Anyways I find this book really helpful when I was in school, whenever the teacher just surprises us with a weird ass building typology like, okay class for this week we are going to design a bowling alley slash funeral home. So yeah the teacher gives you some sort of weird building type like that and just look it up here and then boom! Problem solved you get the spatial requirements, what errors are required for a funeral slash bowling alley thing. Yeah this book is super useful for that. Also if there is like an intruder in your room you could like use this smack-lend intruder in the head, probably kill him so yeah don't do that. Look how thick that is, this is probably heavier than Thor's hammer man. Also you could use it as a shield so yeah anyways let's move on to the next book. Alright the next book is Architectural Graphic Standards by Charles, George, Ramsey and Harold Sleeper. This is the second book that you will pick up after developing schematic plans so it'll be your basis for slim lining your drawings into a more accurate and detailed design scheme. In this book we can find a variety of details ranging from anthropometric data, solar paths, kitchen cabinet, wood braining details, it's all in here. So I find this book very useful in situations where I need to create close-up details for working drawings. So most of this books that I'm showing you guys are really really heavy so I suggest that you guys just buy like an e-book version of this unless you want to work out and be as ripped as me. 2001! Oh my god, this is f***ing okay. Next up is Architecture Form Space in Order. Third book in the list so after using the first two books that I told you guys about we now have an overall idea of what measurements and details she will use. Now it is time to consolidate all those information and put them all together then bring in a little design, I don't know what that was. Anyway bring in a little design and art into the mix so that's what this book is for. This book is written by Francis D. K. Cheng. He has so many good books about architecture but I narrowed it down to my two favorite books. Also these are the only books that I have so yeah. I find this book super useful because this book focuses a lot on architectural fury, like how to derive designs from shapes, surfaces, linear elements, the unity of opposites, you know, stuff like that. It is a very good reference and has helped me a lot when I was struggling to come up with designs. So to put it simply this book is like saying give a man a fish but you know instead of fish like give a man a design and he will make one house. Teach a man how to design and he will like design for a lifetime or something like that that probably didn't make sense but you know you get the point. So it teaches you the basic foundations for which you will base your design from. Moving on to the next book. A visual dictionary of architecture by again Francis D. K. Cheng. So this book by far is my favorite one from all the books listed on this here list. So this book is probably the reason why I passed architecture license here exam. Also it is the only book in this list that I have read from Copper to Copper which is like a big deal because the only other book that I read from Copper to Copper is the Red Riding Hood. In the three bears I'm lying I didn't really finish that book either. Anyway as this book's title implies it is a visual dictionary meaning that it is like a dictionary with lots of drawings and pictures about architecture. I find this book super helpful because it has the common architectural terms and lingo listed in alphabetical order. And the terms are often explained in brief and easy to understand statements thus making the information in this book easily retainable or easily memorable. Okay guys we are down to our last book. So this last book is like a weird book because it's empty as you can see here. So you guys must be thinking this is one of those kung fu panda things where the scroll is empty but really it's his reflection on the scroll. It's blank. Or like a Mr. Miyagi thing where he teaches Daniel San to walk in and walk out. No this has no deep meaning like those movies so this is just a sketchbook. So this is where you write certain info that you come across in your day to day life information you want find the books. This is also you write audio design ideas and this is also you write audio design ideas and this is also you write audio design ideas and this is also you write audio design ideas and don't tell yourself that you remember it because believe me you won't remember those design ideas. So just write it down. You guys won't believe how much great ideas I had forgotten because I told myself I would remember it. Then five minutes later I forgot the idea. So yeah sketchbook super important also buy a small one you can carry around in your pocket. Well I guess that's the end of our video. 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