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	Architectural Representation Handbook: Traditional and Digital Techniques for Graphic Communication Author: Paul Laseau Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing Year: 2000
	Amazon Price: $59.95
ArchitectureWeek— A range of architectural representation — traditional, new media, hybrid, and emerging — and their roles in design. Examples for specific design contexts, providing a sense of their variety, subtlety, and usefulness as tools for exploring architectural ideas.
	Drawing Shortcuts: Developing Quick Drawing Skills Using Today's Technology Author: Jim Leggitt Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Year: 2002
	Amazon Price: $34.75
ArchitectureWeek— A simple drawing approach that joins traditional hand drawing techniques with modern technology to improve your drawing skills and help you produce more accurate sketches.
	Principles of Three-Dimensional Computer Animation Author: Michael O'Rourke Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Year: 2003
	Amazon Price: $36.84
ArchitectureWeek— An introduction and guide to the latest developments in animation technology, primarily aimed at artists and animators.
	Mapping in the Age of Digital Media: The Yale Symposium Author: Mike Silver and Diana Balmori, editors Publisher: Wiley Academy Editions Year: 2003
	Amazon Price: $63.19
ArchitectureWeek— Insights of designers, theorists, engineers, and artists about digital mapping techniques: how they represent space, shape our perceptions of reality, and affect our culture, aesthetics, and politics.
	The Architect's Guide to the US CAD Standard Author: Dennis J. Hall and Charles R. Green Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Year: 2006
	Amazon Price: $57.38
ArchitectureWeek— This architect's guide to the U.S. National CAD Standard presents explanations of concepts and options in the NCS, a step-by-step approach to implementation, and strategies design firms can use to best take advantage of the NCS requirements. The book includes overview, illustrations, and frequently asked questions. It shows how to minimize immediate costs and downtime, how to reap immediate benefits, and how best to learn the system at an individual's pace.
	Artists' Impressions in Architectural Design Author: Bob Giddings and Margaret Horne Publisher: Spon Press Year: 2002
	Amazon Price: $85.00
ArchitectureWeek— An analysis of ways in which architects have presented their design ideas for clients and the public, both historically and recently, from the earliest perspective techniques to the latest in computer rendering.
	BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers an Author: Chuck Eastman, Paul Teicholz, Rafael Sacks, Kathleen Liston Publisher: Wiley Year: 2008
	Amazon Price: $66.34
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