Archispeak: An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Terms - Paperback

by Tom Porter (Author)

This unique, illustrated guide helps architecture students to understand the nuances of this specialized language and aids them in communicating their own design ideas.

Author Biography

Tom Porter was senior lecturer at the Oxford School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University. Over a twenty-five year period he made annual visits to Florida A&M University in Tallahassee where he taught architectural design. He is author of eighteen books on architectural drawing and environmental colour, including the best selling four volume series Manual of Graphic Techniques. His research into the psychology of colour became the basis of a six-part BBC TV documentary series and the book The Colour Eye.