Reddit mentions: The best architecture books

Speaking as someone with a MFA in Theatrical Design and Technology and who has worked in film and television the last few years, I never ran across a widely accepted standard.

I setup my layers up in a very straight forward fashion:

0-ghost, 0-very light, 0-light, 0-med...0-very heavy
1-line type (hidden, phantom, etc)
2-Dims, 2-Notes, 2-Notes Red, etc

I'm not sitting at my computer so I can't recall all my layers, but I feel like I approached them as I approached linework as a hand draftsman... And I feel like I change how I do it every year.

For my layouts

Page 1 is Plan and what elevations for (in 1/4" and 3/4" for more complicated objects)
Page 2 to as needed is continuation of elevations
Then I go into details (full or half scale) and renderings as needed


Some excellence books

Drafting for the Theatre https://www.amazon.com/dp/0809330377/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_4CUiDbWGFMX9A


Designer Drafting and Visualizing for the Entertainment World, Second Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0240818911/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_JEUiDbK121Y4D

The Backstage Handbook: An Illustrated Almanac of Technical Information https://www.amazon.com/dp/0911747397/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_DFUiDbGBHHPHK

Architectural Graphic Standards. Third Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000EZI774/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_.GUiDbZP96C4H - for theater, don't bother with a brand new edition, I have 3rd (all the drawings are by hand and are shit yourself gorgeous) and seventh? (I would have to check my library). The current edition is needed for current building code, but that typically doesn't pertain to what I do.

Synchronicity's a funny thing. Minutes ago I was reading The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History and saw a blueprint image of the Eiffel Tower in it. Then I loaded Reddit and pow, here they all are at once. How cool.

Anyway, The City Shaped is a fantastic book and I can recommend it to any /r/architecture reader.

I really like the books Color, Space, and Style and Materials, Structures, and Standards. They're full of fantastic information, and are really easy to use. I would probably start with the first book, as the second one dives into structure a bit more.

I'm pretty sure both books are currently out of print, but I know people have found them for decent prices when they've searched around a bit more.

that is a massive subject area and varies by geography and culture as much as time.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/City-Shaped-Patterns-Meanings-Through/dp/0500280991/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1478009617&sr=1-1

and

https://www.amazon.co.uk/City-Assembled-Elements-Through-History/dp/0500281726/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1478009617&sr=1-2

are pretty good looks at the subject

I used this to help me when I was taking that class the first time. It's good if you can use something else for the principles that the problems are based on. I just liked seeing how the problems were approached.

Amazon link for the lazy/impulsive buyer in us all.