The architectural pattern book
By: Urban Design Associates ; authors, Ray Gindroz ... [et al.] ; with contributions by David R. Csont ... [et al.] ; preface by David Lewis ; editor and contributing writer, Karen Levine.
Contributors: Gindroz, Ray.; Csont, David R.; Levine, Karen, 1950-; Urban Design Associates.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic -- United States -- Designs and plans; City planning -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Pattern books -- United States
Genres: Designs and plans.; Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: "The Architectural Pattern Book traces the precedents of twenty-first-century manuals from the Renaissance to Georgian and Parisian urban assembly kits and colonial American pattern books. It documents the revival of the traditional architectural pattern book as a means of implementing urban design in large-scale developments by describing techniques and working methods of preparing guides for current design and construction processes, and it shows exemplars that will serve as models for contemporary designers."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 226) and index.