(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best architectural presentation books

I will post some of my favorite books in a second for you as soon as my computer gets turned on. :)

Here are a couple of my favorites from my school "Hey, I actually like these.. I'm going to purchase them!" collection.

General Graphic Design:

Graphic Design: The New Basics

This publication does a great job of showing "relationships between formal elements of two-dimensional design such as point, line, plane, scale, hierarchy, layers, and transparency." If you are looking for a general overview on a lot of subjects within graphic design I think this is a great way to upgrade your vocabulary and general knowledge about graphic design.


Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field

I feel like this book really can help you improve your vocabulary and general knowledge of the graphic design world offering "primary texts from the most important historical and contemporary designthinkers." It's also nice that it offers a bit of history too, analyzing the early 1900s through today.


Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop

Great. Absolutely great publication for all designers showing effective use of the grid system and how to layout your compositions. "Effective layout is essential to communication and enables the end user to not only be drawn in with an innovative design but to digest information easily."


Typography: <3

30 Essential Typefaces for a Lifetime

I loooooove this book. It gives a bit of history and usage examples of 30 amazing typefaces you should know and love.


Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students

Another great typography book. This publication was one of my favorites because, at the end of the day, I'm a visual person and this book has SO many visual examples to compliment it's copy it's beautiful. "This revised edition includes ... the latest information on style sheets for print and the web, the use of ornaments and captions, lining and non-lining numerals, the use of small caps and enlarged capitals, as well as information on captions, font licensing, mixing typefaces, and hand lettering."


Typographic Systems of Design

This is a very good resource for learning, as the title states, typographic systems. It "explores eight major structural frameworks beyond the gridincluding random, radial, modular, and bilateralsystems." Overall, I feel like this book helped me to improve my positioning and creative use of type in designs.

I'd like to add to crazywhiteguy's excellent response. I've had decent luck with a book I bought on Amazon, though I'm sure you could find it elsewhere:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1430224894/

The book has plans, a list of materials, etc, and most (aside from steppers, controllers, and drivers) can be purchased at your local hardware store. The machine itself is built from Medium Density Fiberboard, or MDF. Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for (a bit larger) but you can certainly adapt the plans to scale it up or down. There is a decent website that the co-author runs with parts and kits available as well. Hope this helps.

Beyond that, pm me anytime, this has been an ongoing fascination of mine for a number of years. Eventually hope to have a 4x8' machine I can use to build molds / bucks for a vacuum-forming machine I've been working on as well.

Best of luck!

Uncategorized:

Thoughts On Design: Paul Rand


Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design

How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul

100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design

Paul Rand

Paul Rand: Conversations with Students

Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design

Bauhaus

The Vignelli Canon

Vignelli From A to Z

Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible

It's Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be: The World's Best Selling Book

Damn Good Advice (For People with Talent!)

Josef Muller-Brockmann: Pioneer of Swiss Graphic Design

Popular Lies About Graphic Design

100 Ideas that Changed Art

100 Diagrams That Changed the World

Basics Design 08: Design Thinking

Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920-1965

Lella and Massimo Vignelli (Design is One)

The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice

History of the Poster

How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer

The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics

George Lois: On His Creation of the Big Idea

Milton Glaser: Graphic Design

Sagmeister: Made You Look

Victore or, Who Died and Made You Boss?

Things I have learned in my life so far

Covering the '60s: George Lois, the Esquire Era

Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

[Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration]
(http://www.amazon.com/dp/0812993012/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=VEJ64Y4T0U6J&coliid=I1WMMNNLTRBQ9G)

Graphic Design Thinking (Design Briefs)

I Used to Be a Design Student: 50 Graphic Designers Then and Now

The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design

Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills

Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference

Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Envisioning Information

The elements of dynamic symmetry

The elements of content strategy

Corporate Diversity: Swiss graphic design and advertising

Book Design: a comprehensive guide

Meggs' History of Graphic Design

Happy to help.

I'm still no expert but I learned windows scripting out of necessity to save time and make my work life easier and more enjoyable. Telling the machines to do the iterative work while we just watch and monitor is a big part of being a sysadmin IMHO.

Here's a pretty comprehensive page on windows shell commands and such:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Windows_Batch_Scripting

I bought this book a bout a million years ago which helped me understand the more esoteric features of the windows shell and also fill in some knowledge gaps. There's probably better books out there now on the same topic.

If you want to be a scripting wizard for any platform, start looking at unix shell scripting with bash. Read up and develop a competency on utility programs like grep, awk, sed, cut, find, xargs, sort, tr, join. Learn regular expressions with a vengeance and eventually you'll end up at perl.
This book changed my life as an admin. I use many of the same unix skills on Windows by way of Strawberry Perl and GNU Utils for windows in combination with the cmd shell.

Here's the same script in perl which is actually easier for me to write and maintain.

In my humble opinion, the following are great and important reads for a newcomer into the subject.

Experiencing Architecture by Rasmussen

Any and ALL of Frank Ching's books, starting with Form, Space and Order

Sun, Wind, and Light is a timeless reference book.

The Dynamics of Architectural Form by Rudolf Arnheim is a great study on environmental psychology.

Also, Pattern Language if you're a complete masochist and really want to go DEEP into the subject.

I've got more if you're interested, but that should keep you busy for quite a while haha. Best of luck and I hope you find them as enjoyable as I have.

It is super pricey and maybe a cliche answer to the question, because you are almost certainly aware of it, but the AIA's Architectural Graphics Standards is really an amazing document for getting a handle on industry standards.

My RS Means subscription is all digital now, so I don't know how the paper copies work anymore, but this is a really useful tool for not only understanding the cost of elements and how it bears on decision making, but also just seeing what building types and details are common. Again, this is sort of expensive.

In terms of codes, I use ASHRAE 90.1 a lot. The ICC codes are available. They form the underlying basis of a lot of municipal code now.

Don't be afraid to rely on industry specific sources, either. A lot of times the Precast Concrete Institute or whomever will publish standard details, span tables, specs, etc. for free, in hopes that architects will choose their system.

I don't know if any of that is helpful or not. Good luck!

Where in Canada is this?
You also want to look at wind direction for passive ventilation.

The Key to making a passive or zero energy building is to first reduce the loads, so do what you can to reduce need for electric lights during the day by sun lighting. Also, because you seem to be in a cold climate, the thermal envelope will be very important. Although it may be desirable to have floor to ceiling windows on the north side, consider what this will do for heat loss.

A good place to start would be a look at the Passivhaus standards. Some good references for this kind of stuff would be MEEB, Sun, Wind and Light and The Green Studio Handbook.

also, as main82 suggested, a trombe wall could be a good idea, but you'll need to look at how much direct solar gain you will be getting to analyze whether or not it will be effective. Also look at a sunspace in combination with the trombe wall.

Hope this helps.

(PS: PM me if you want MEEB)

Try 95 percent infill instead of 100. Often much better outcome.

Usually, after 60 percent, strength doesn't go up much except in compression if the layer adhesion is good.

Make sure your walls are 4 layers / 2mm and upper / lower surfaces are 1mm+. 90 percent of the strain is concentrated in the skin. After that, 60-80 percent infill is probably the sweet spot

For things like this I like polymax PLA by polymaker. It's crazy strong / tough and non brittle, and has great layer adhesion at 220c. It's also one of the smoothest printing filaments I've tried.

If you like printing functional stuff, you should check out my book if you don't already have it. (Functional design for 3D printing 3rd edition Amazon link)

I reccomend the paperback for reference use. If you can't afford it, dm me and I'll send you a pdf copy.

I 100% agree with the them002 and J1mm. You will have to practice often, and any Frank Ching books will help you understand how buildings are put together.

If you are looking for a great resource to help you learn how to sketch figures and buildings in a freehand kind of way (drawing/painting things around you, talking to locals kind of idea) I would recommend Paul Laseau's Architectural Drawing. This is a great way to learn how to draw buildings in either 20 seconds or 20 minutes. I used it before I went to Europe to study architecture for 4 months, and using his methods made my sketches improve nearly 500-fold over a month and a half.

On typography:

• The Elements of Typographic Style, the Bible of Typography.
  
• Thinking with Type, a nice overview of how type works.
  
• Detail in Typography, on the finer points of type.
  
  On grids:
  
  
• Raster Systeme, by the eminent expert of the Swiss School.
  
• Making and Breaking the Grid, a modern update on the timeless grid.
  
  On colour:
  
  
• The Art of Color, a classic on color.
  
• Interaction of Color, another classic text on color (theory).
  
  On usability:
  
  
• Don't Make Me Think, a classic on web usability.
  
• The Design of Everyday Things, a general usability Urtext.
  
• Understanding Comics, a great primer from an unlikely field.
  
  On information design:
  
  
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, the master at work.
  
  On inspiration:
  
  
• How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer, inspiration from the field.
  
• How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul
  
  On theory:
  
  
• What is a designer, philosophical musings, existential questions.
  
• Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field, theoretical backgrounds on the craft.
  
  On history:
  
  
• Meggs' History of Graphic Design, a canonical classic.
  
• Graphic Design: A New History, an alternative narrative.
  
  Monographs:
  
  
• From Lascaux to Brooklyn, the inimitable Paul Rand.
  
• Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design, the art of Saul Bass.
  
• Tibor Kalman, Perverse Optimist, the exceptional work of Mr Kalman.

It's a 26 story mixed use high rise. The footprint does vary a lot as you move up the building, first 10 floors contain a parking garage plinth (Ungodly, but we're having to work around an existing structure that takes up a quarter of the lot. Because of that, our parking is way less than optimal, but its the best we could do). First floor is retail, and we do have a sky lobby with some building ammenities and a public resturant and some things along those lines. On floors like that, the core takes up a smaller portion of the overall square footage because we have a larger building footprint. We're also restricting the amount of stories of our building because after a certain height we hit a few city ordinances that to implement would make the building less cost efficient.

The 87% is just on our typical office floors. It's actually not the most efficient floors, our first floor is because of the large retail spaces in comparison to the core (larger floor plate with the same core and a negligible additional stair). $$$ for the developer.

On the upper floors, the percentage is a little lower because the overall floor plate is smaller, however the core is the same size. We were able to terminate an egress stair when the floor plate stepped back, but that reclaimed floor space only does so much.
In school, I was taught that the most optimum core would be 1/10th of your floor plate... in real life I haven't seen that achieved too often.

I recommend The Architect's Studio Companion for helping you get a feel for the spaces that make up a core, and sizing them appropriately for your building occupancy type and footprint.

Yes, I really liked this book!. It's an easy read and gives a great overview of the school. It doesn't dive deeply into any one topic, but does touch on just about every topic you might like. Tons of great pictures and images of work produced at the school too!

What you need is this book:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0692883215/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

PETG is more flexible than ABS. You're confusing flexibility for strength. It's not flat out better or worse. Pro's and con's for every printing material yada, yada, etc..

Just for example, printing at 100% infill doesn't make things better. Can run into overextrusion issues if your printer isn't calibrated. PETG also prints at a higher nozzle temperature, which doesn't bode well long term for printer.

Lastly, ABS can be a bitch to use on this printer. I run the bed at 85 C in an enclosure. It's taken me weeks of testing to get the ABS juice applied correctly to my glass bed. The bed heater is weak and it's easy for the furthest edges from the plate to cool, thus warping. Modifications/design changes will potentially have to made to the bottom of your prints to reduce the likelihood of warping. BUT, ABS is cheaper and it's the OG of printing materials. It is strong and satisfying to get right. But, use the right material for the right project. Functional stuff: ABS/PETG, models: PLA. Good luck.

I'm taking the pre-architecture courses now, and I've recently graduated from a computer drafting program (AutoCAD and Revit with some Sketchup).

If I was going to start over again, I'd want to know how to draw. Definitely develop good line control (through contour, blind contour, and just line drawing exercises).

Model building is another important aspect. It's all about craft and getting familiar with the materials. You may end up using other materials but foamcore and basswood are the two go to materials in my classes.

For now, and my knowledge is limited, if you're going to learn any software, I'd focus more on Photoshop, Sketchup, and Rhino.

Helpful books would be Form, Space, and Order, Design Drawing and Drawing, A Creative Process all by Francis Ching.

I'd also study art and architectural history. Having a good knowledge base of different styles would help you in your own designs.

The two best resources which helped me in advancing in this software were the solidworks bible (long read but the is my go-to guide):
http://www.amazon.com/Solidworks-2013-Bible-Matt-Lombard/dp/1118508408/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413031308&sr=8-1&keywords=solidworks+bible

The other is youtube: Search for Innova Systems; they have excellent webinars posted but I would recommend getting your bearings first, as they move somewhat quickly.

Cheers

Does she like to draw? Would she like to learn to draw? Get her some architect-y drawing supplies!

For example:

• Freehand Sketching by Paul Laseau
  
• Lamy Safari Fountain Pen - Extra Fine
  
• Moleskin Watercolor Notebook
  
  If she enjoys that, next up is maybe a set of watercolors or copic markers. Also, JetPens has all sorts of good stuff. Check out things like 2mm lead holders, Pentel Sign Pen (and similar), any of the fine roller ball type pens, etc.

%~dp0 if the SCCM guy's best friend.

I learned about this from Tim Hill's excellent book "Shell Scripting" in the 1990s. Still well worth having on your desk.


http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Shell-Scripting-Timothy-Hill/dp/1578700477

Dunno, exactly. As cheap as possible, obvs. I considered making a smaller one first, but I build a fair amount of furniture so bigger would be extremely helpful. I was toying with the idea of using to clone parts for itself and selling kits.

I got this book , wondering if I could just scale it up. It doesn't need much Z axis, I really don't ever do anything more than 3/4", although 1" would be nice in the future.

Edit: I didn't answer the question. I'd like to stay under $1,000, assuming I'm not paying retail for steppers and such.

I work in the oil and gas industry in the UK at work we use this:
Manual of Engineering Drawing
I find it has most things like welding symbols, dimensioning principles and surface finishes it is pretty much my bible at work.

As for an actual standard like BS8888 they all cost £100+ and I can never find them online.

Hope it helps.

I really, really enjoy Color, Space, and Style- lots of great information. Prescedents of Architecture is great as well.

You might want to check at r/Architecture for more advice, though, since the Interior Design sub is sadly not geared towards actual Interior Design.

Sounds like you need to hit the internet hard or pickup some books on print reading because man, if you're taking CNC classes and can't read a print, you're in over your head. My trade school required manual machining and print reading before being allowed to progress into programming and CNC machining.

Print reading is fundamental and if you can't read a print well, you can't program and you can't decide what strategies to apply to your process. You'll end up an operator without it.

Theres also several different ways tolerance prints, GD&T seems to what everyone is moving to. That being said, about half the prints I get are ASME and the others are GD&T.

You'll have to find out what system is going to be used in your classes and go from there to decide exactly what you need to learn for your education. For GD&T I used: http://amzn.to/2tiWi8T and it was okay but not great. ASME was included in another textbook I had at the time.

Good luck man, print reading is absolutely critical to being successful in this trade and most shops won't look at you twice if you can't read a print.

Edit: Forgot to add to brush up on your trigonometry.

I would Recommend Francis D.K. Chings Architectural Graphics

Some of my students have also had good luck with The Architect's Studio Companion

Cool renderings. What program/engine are you using?

Ching: Form, Space and Order

A wonderful book. Hand drawn and hand lettered.

I like Lettering & Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces and In Progress: See Inside a Lettering Artist's Sketchbook and Process, from Pencil to Vector. But really the biggest help for me was just daily practice, with someone who can give you quality feedback on your work

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Manual-Engineering-Drawing-Specification-Documentation/dp/0080966527/ref=oosr

The above is a good textbook on engineering drawing, it's based on BS8888.

The most important thing is to think about how a component is going to be manufactured. If you have an array of holes for which the location relative to each other is important then position one relative to your datum and then dimension the rest of them relative to that hole.

Take care with running dimensions as you get compound tolerances.

I recommend the following books:

Thinking With Type by Ellen Lupton.
This book is the essential introduction to typography and probably should be the first type book you get.

Lettering and Type by Bruce Willen and Nolan Strals.
This book provides an introduction to different types of lettering and typographic work, as well as a brief introduction to designing your own typeface.

Designing Type by Karen Cheng.
This book covers the intricacies and design considerations of each letter one by one. It's a great reference when designing your own type, or even if you just want a more in-depth look at letterforms.

If you are looking for reference material, look also for references to Pro/Engineer Wildfire, which is what it used to be called. Not too much changed between Pro/E and Creo beyond adding a ribbon instead of menus.

When I was learning, I used an earlier version of this textbook:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1585038156/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

And it was very helpful. Creo is in many ways very unintuitive, so having a book was great.

i am reposting these links i provided in this thread.
Check out these free Google E-books Alphabets and other materials for letterers, Ames alphabets,Alphabets. They all have a few examples of Fraktur. I also recommend Fraktur Mon Amour. And never stop practicing.

The Solidworks Bible is still a great reference, but it hasn't been updated since 2013. Solidworks changes so fast that it's not cost effective for the publishers to put out a new version every year. Check out YouTube, GrabCAD, or the Solidworks forums for more up to date info. Attending Solidworks World or training classes through your reseller could be helpful as well. When you take a class a manual is included that covers everything from the training.

Saw this book and thought of this thread:
ArchiDoodle


It's pretty cheap and would be an easy intro.

The Intro to GIS course my university offers uses a book called Getting to Know ArcGIS that I found pretty easy-to-use and helpful when I took the class a while back.

Precedents in Architecture: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis is an excellent book of examples. It's expensive, but your school's library should have it (if not multiple copies).

Good luck!

Theory will fail you. Trust me. & Francis Ching is an illustrator. He is not a builder.

Here's what I did. I collected the Graphic Standards. There are 11 editions in all.

http://www.amazon.com/Architectural-Graphic-Standards-11th-Edition/dp/0471700916

And then I carefully traced the changes in construction from one edition to the next on details that I thought were salient to my project. And for each project, regardless of whether a teacher wanted it or not, I put up a page of details. Because it is in the details that the construction reveals itself.

And after that you can start to go to the trades. Got precast in your project - go the the precast manufacturer association and look for details that would describe your solution.

Learn the details.

Your own theory will follow as a framework for your knowledge and for your values. In school, they'll teach it to you backwards. They'll take the theories of others who have gone through the process and give it to you fully baked, and without anything else, you'll end up knowing nothing.

Trust the Graphic Standards, even those from 1932. They have a ton to teach you.

Buy this book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Manual-Engineering-Drawing-Specification-Documentation/dp/0080966527

This is your bible for engineering drawing, a copy of BS 8888 is very useful as well as ISO EN 129.

Black Sirkka is on the Fraktur mon Amour CD, there's some great contemporary frakturs listed in there

Find out what CAD package they have or are getting. It sounds like a smaller shop so I'd guess Solidworks or Inventor (typically cheaper).

Then, my recommendation is to pick up a tutorial book. I liked Planchard for Solidworks and Toogood/Zecher for Creo (used to be called Pro/E). This was 7+ years and versions ago, but I remember modeling all the stuff on the cover so the tutorials haven't change much and the quality probably hasn't either. I don't really have recommendations for other packages...once you're on your third it's really just figuring out what the new buttons look like.

You can find tutorials online but they are almost never worth it in a business setting. Most are incomplete and disjointed so you'll waste enough man hours it's worth it to just get the book.

In my intro GIS class, we used this book. It is friendly to learning the basics of the program and some geoprocessing.

In the next class, we moved to this one, which overlaps some and expands more on the geoprocessing bit.

Each book comes with a 6 month license for ArcMap 10.0.

design drawing

(not an architect, but it was helpful to me. may be more general than what you are looking for, but does include sketching.)

Design Drawing by Francis Ching
http://www.amazon.com/Design-Drawing-Francis-D-Ching/dp/0470533692

He covers perspectives and a host of other architectural drawing types, as well as things like line weight, tone and shading.

Also Architectural Graphics also by Ching.
http://www.amazon.com/Architectural-Graphics-Francis-D-Ching/dp/0470399112/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_z

precedents in architecture by roger clark will give you a solid basis for rudimentary diagramming. circulation, parti, geometry etc is all covered in the book in a simple and clean way.

http://www.amazon.com/Precedents-Architecture-Analytic-Diagrams-Formative/dp/0470946741/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416148936&sr=8-1&keywords=roger+clark+architecture

For starters there's a couple of good books on amazon...This is the one that I use.
Fundamentals of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing by Alex Krulikowski

PM me if you want to talk more.

my deisgn history's textbook is ths one, basically it's a big collection of essays from FT Maranetti to some present day designers, quite good.

Francis Chings books a really good place to start, i still use this one.

http://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Space-Francis-D-K-Ching/dp/0471286168

Architectural Graphics

Freehand Drawing for Architects and Interior Designers

Design Drawing

These should provide plenty of foundational skills and examples of the kinds of handdrawings you may find useful.

If you're going all out nothing will be as useful as graphic standards. http://www.amazon.com/Architectural-Graphic-Standards-11th-Edition/dp/0471700916

I think so :) There's loads on amazon and such, I have this and one similar to this at the minute for when I just need to distract myself and not really think about anything :)

Two of my favorites:

http://www.amazon.com/101-Things-Learned-Architecture-School/dp/0262062666

http://www.amazon.com/Archidoodle-Architects-Activity-Steve-Bowkett/dp/1780673213/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1449462767&sr=1-1&keywords=archidoodle

I think you are looking for Architectural Graphic Standards

There is also an online resource

Plus if you are interested in all aspects of design, consider the 99% Invisible podcast

If you like black-letter and calligraphy, this is a beautiful book
http://www.amazon.com/Fraktur-Mon-Amour-Judith-Schalansky/dp/156898801X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292733562&sr=1-1

https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Geometric-Dimensioning-Tolerancing-Krulikowski/dp/1111129827/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=J79KBEFH0WKF6KDZ2B0X

Its a steep price but its what I used in my GD&T course.

If you want something like a course with everything broken into pieces and with review questions after each lesson its not bad.

Architectural Graphic Standards

11 Edition of Architectural Graphic Standards

https://www.amazon.com/Architectural-Standards-American-Institute-Architects/dp/0471700916

Architectural Books/Monographs to me are classic architectural gifts

https://www.amazon.com/Architects-Studio-Companion-Preliminary-Design/dp/0470641916

Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field by Helen Armstrong

A book that's a bit more in depth/technical: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Graphic-Design-Theory-Readings-Briefs/dp/1568987722/ref=sr_1_65?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314288814&sr=1-65

I think you are looking for Architectural Graphics Standards published by The American Institute of Architects

The name is a little esoteric but it is basically the bible of architectural drawing.

Incredibly old, but I still have it on my bookshelf: https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Shell-Scripting-Timothy-Hill/dp/1578700477

For ISO drawings my go to is this.