From the article: Essential Reference Books for Architecture
What book should every architect or architecture student own?
- Students: What book has helped you the most?
- Teachers: What book do you tell your students to buy?
- Pros: What book do you turn to again and again?
Handbook of Detailing: Graphic Anatomy
- Book on the mechanics of detailing architectural/construction projects with extensive examples, critiques, analysis and narrative for effective detailing of projects. ... Bookstore Link: http://erclk.about.com/?zi=1/2v8P
- —3509ra
Not that relevant to UK students
- Do you think your article should read "most essential books for US students of Architecture"? The UK books that are mostly bought by students are not in your list. In fact they are quite different and would include things like: The Architects Job Book, The Architects Pocket Book, New Metric Handbook, Neufrets Data, Working Details series, Rough Guide to Sustainability, to name a few. For bestselling architecture books in the UK, I would suggest the following link might be appropriate for students, compiled by RIBA Bookshops: http://www.ribabookshops.com/books-every-architectural-practice-needs
- —largoward73
Building Construction Illustrated
- Every Architect and Architecture student should have this, because it's a very good book. You can learn a lot of things that your school doesn't teach you. . . Author: Frank Ching. . . Bookstore Link: http://erclk.about.com/?zi=1/2v8E
- —Guest benster
