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Packed with useful hands-on information for both schematic design and computer-assisted working drawings, Architect’s Studio Handbook is the ideal tool for every architect who wants handy rules-of-thumb, convenient graphic conventions, and easy-to-find answers in diagrams, charts, and drawings -- all in a stay-open, flex-binding format. Author/architect Terry Patterson’s complete, up-to-date, information-packed guide helps you:
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A definitive user's guide to the U.S. National CAD Standard
The Architect's Guide to the U.S. National CAD Standard helps make the National CAD Standard (NCS) more accessible to architects by presenting:
- Clear and succinct explanations of concepts and options in the NCS
- A step-by-step approach to seamlessly implement standardized drawings in any size firm
- Successful strategies design firms can use to best take advantage of the NCS requirements
The Architect's Guide to the U.S. National CAD Standard presents an informative overview of the NCS, including illustrations and frequently asked questions. It shows architects how to minimize immediate costs and downtime, how to reap immediate benefits, and how best to learn the system at an individualized pace. Used side by side with the Standard, this authoritative guide offers helpful insight into how the NCS is likely to be interpreted and presents a variety of available options for meeting the standardization requirements.
Interior designers, construction managers, urban planners, as well as owners, engineers, and facility managers will also find this authoritative reference to be invaluable!
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New Standard in Born.......2007-05-18
The new standard for the industry. A must buy for professionals.
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The Digital Architect: A Common-Sense Guide to Using Computer Technology in Design Practice
Ken Sanders
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Written by an architect for design professionals, The Digital Architect is a gold mine of commonsense advice and guidance on the realities of using computer technology in design practice.
Ken Sanders, AIA, takes you beyond the hyperbole to discover the practical reality of using computers today. He explains their strengths and weaknesses; what these tools do and what they don't do; and how they can be used strategically and tactically to improve quality, productivity, and profits in design firms of all sizes. Drawing on his own experiences and those of colleagues from across the nation whose comments appear throughout, he provides a wealth of valuable insights and advice on:
- Choosing technology that leverages your professional value
- Integrating technology seamlessly into your firm
- Implementing cost-effective technology training and education
- Managing the digital office, including liability, privacy, and security issues
- Organizing the knowledge base of your firm
- Using the Internet's World Wide Web as a global information resource
- Hardware platforms, operating systems, and networks
- Software tools and applications, including CAD, word processing, spreadsheets, multimedia, visualization, animation, virtual reality, on-line services, and more
- The latest releases of major software products, including Windows 95TM and AutoCAD(r) Release 13(r)
The only guide of its kind, The Digital Architect is a valuable tool for architects, engineers, designers, and all those who participate in creating the built environment.
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El Arquitecto Digital.......2002-01-08
Escrito por un arquitecto para los profesionales del diseño, el libro "El Arquitecto Digital" está repleto de consejos y orientaciones sobre el uso de la informática en el ejercicio real del diseño, con un excelente enfoque.
Más allá de las exageraciones habituales y de los puntos de vista demasiado comerciales o visionarios, Ken Sanders explica los puntos fuertes y los puntos débiles de la informática en la oficina de proyectos, lo que hacen y lo que no hacen este tipo de herramientas y la mejor manera de utilizarlas para incrementar la calidad del trabajo, la productividad y los beneficios en estudios de todos los tamaños.
A partir de su propia experiencia y la de otros muchos colegas, proporciona interesantes conocimientos y consejos para:
Elegir adecuadamente la tecnología en función de nuestro desarrollo profesional
Integrar y organizar sólidamente la informática en el estudio
Impartir la formación y cómo afectará al personal del estudio
Gestionar el estudio digital, incluyendo los problemas de la fiabilidad, seguridad y privacidad
Aprovechar la información disponible en Internet y otros recursos digitales
Sin descender a los detalles técnicos más propios de los informáticos o de los especialistas, Ken Sanders ofrece también una visión sintética, específica para quienes hacen proyectos y puesta al día sobre:
Plataformas de ordenadores, sistemas operativos y redes
Programas de dibujo asistido (CAD), tratamientos de texto, hojas de cálculo, sistemas de animación, multimedia y realidad virtual
Comentarios sobre las últimas versiones de los sistemas más difundidos, como AutoCAD 14 y Windows 98.
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1. El impacto de la informática en el ejercicio de la arquitectura
2. Planificación y puesta en marcha de la informática en el estudio
3. Enseñanza y formación de la informática
4. Herramientas para el arquitecto
5. El lenguaje de los medios digitales
6. Sistemas operativos y redes
7. Ordenadores personales
8. El CAD, clave de la arquitectura automatizada
9. Organización de la base de conocimientos
10. Recursos en línea
11. La gestión del estudio digital
12. Tendencias futuras
"El Arquitecto Digital" es un valioso instrumento para arquitectos y arquitectos técnicos, ingenieros, diseñadores y todos aquellos que participan en el ámbito de la construcción. Incluye numerosas direcciones electrónicas útiles para los arquitectos.
La edición española ha sido traducida y revisada por Fernando Valderrama mediante 99 comentarios que completan con información específica para nuestro país y nuestras costumbres el interesante texto de Sanders.
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Frank O. Gehry, born in 1929, founded his own architectural firm in Los Angeles in 1962, and since the building of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, he is undoubtedly among the ranks of international architecture superstars. His buildings are complex constructions, with curves and distortions, skilful plastic shapes which never cease to surprise with their breath-taking spatial effects. To create these daring designs, Gehry makes extensive use of the latest electronic tools, physical models are transformed into digital models using software and hardware which has been adapted from the space industry and medical research. This book provides a colourful insight into Gehry's design methods and the creative process behind his fantastic buildings. Bruce Lindsay studied at the Yale School of Architecture; he is now Associate Head at the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (USA).
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This book is for database designers and database administrators using Visio, which is the database component of Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET for Enterprise Architects suite, also included in MSDN subscriptions. This is the only guide to this product that tells DBAs how to get their job done. Although primarily focused on tool features, the book also provides an introduction to data modeling, and includes practical advice on managing database projects. The principal author was the program manager of VEA's database modeling solutions.
· Explains how to model databases with Microsoft® Visio for Enterprise Architects (VEA), focusing on tool features.
· Provides a platform-independent introduction to data modeling using both Object Role Modeling (ORM) and Entity Relationship Modeling (ERM), and includes practical advice on managing database projects.
· Additional ORM models, course notes, and add-ins available online.
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One of a kind VEA book.......2005-09-29
The title is not misleading; you just have to read the whole title. :] Reading the Editorial Review/ Book Description reinforces the title, so you know what you are getting here. Then, you can view the whole Table of Contents right here on Amazon. Finally, you can search the book and read excerpts. In case all of those mislead you, this is a book about using Visio to model databases.
As far as I know, there is no other book that takes on this subject, and this one does a good job of it.
I knew how to draw ER diagrams on paper and with simple diagramming tools, but it's a big leap to getting them drawn in Visio--especially if you want Visio to properly generate a physical model in SQL Server. The book really helps bridge that gap.
Misleading Title.......2004-07-06
The title is very misleading in that the book's main focus is not on Database Modeling but the use of Visio and reverse engineering. There are very generic references to ORM and UML.
The more appropriate title should have been "Microsoft Visio for Database Modeling".
It's a great user's manual for Microsoft Visio for Enterprise Architects.
This book in combination with Information Modeling and Relational Databases: From Conceptual Analysis to Logical Design is a great combo.
Lacks Depth.......2004-01-06
I am a huge fan of Terry Halpin, and have tried to use ORM on every one of my projects since I read one his previous books. But I have to say I was disappointed in this book.
This book provides an overview of what ORM is, and how to use Microsoft's database modeling tool to design ORM models.. But it lacks depth. I learned a few small tidbits, which I could have probably gleaned from the newsgroups had I bothered.
This book will probably make it into my box of tax donations pretty quickly.
Well written - a pleasure to use.......2003-12-28
This book allows you to make the most of the database modeling aspect of Visio for Enterprise Architects (VEA).
For me finding my way around a new design environment is always time consuming, but following along with the first few chapters made it relatively painless this time. The step-by-step sequences contain not only the usual click this / type that instructions, but often also the reason WHY things are done that way. Sometimes the instructions even anticipate where a newcomer might go wrong. Here is an example from the section that introduces the user interface: "If you unxpectedly get a screen that looks like Figure 3-12 (a screendump with the the menu, toolbar and not much else) you have accidentally hidden the database task pane and should click on View > Task Pane to return to the database menu ...".
The book is carefully organised, and you are guided from a general introduction via installation to the various modeling and reverse-engineering activities, with a nice balance of general duscussion and detailed examples. For complex models there are suggestions on using layers to help with documentation and presentations, and on how to make the most of the built-in reports.
The book shows you how to use the default settings in order to make VEA do as much work for you as possible; it then shows you where and how you can best override the defaults to fine-tune your design. Sometimes a seemingly simple change can have consequences further down the line and the book points out where you have to be careful and why. If you want to go for round-trip maintenance this book helps you to organise your models to make the process as straightforward as possible.
If you are new to Object Role Modeling (ORM) then you will find enough here to show you how powerful it is, and to start using it straight away. If you do not wish to use ORM you can stay with ER models and still be well catered for.
I found the explanation of how conflicts are resolved when you synchronise the model and the physical schema after making changes in one (or both!) of them especially helpful. Being aware of the three-way synchronisation process goes a long way to understand the information presented by the wizards.
There are many useful hints all through the book, like this one: "The physical validation page of the Generate Wizard is the most likely place for errors to occur during DDL generation. Platform specific rules, such as object name lenghth, reserved words, characters, etc, are not enforced during the modeling phase prior to DDL generation. It is thus possible for a model with no conceptual or logical errors to fail physical validation".
The index has been constructed with care, the diagrams are clean and helpful and screen shots are used where appropriate. There is also a handy section with the various ORM, Logical Model and IDEFIX diagram elements.
Best of all, the book opens flat so I can use it while I am working without the need for paperweights, bulldog clips or elbows!
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Construction managers, architects, and civil engineers are working in an environment of rapidly changing and improving information technologies. This handy manual explores the entire spectrum of IT applications in construction, from traditional computer applications to emerging Web-based and mobile technologies. Information can be applied to firms of all sizes and features suggestions for IT solutions that can be implemented for complex projects as well as small, low cost ventures. Estimating, scheduling, web logs, project web portals, content management systems, document management systems, 4D CAD, mobile and field computing, and wireless computing are all discussed.
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