Product Description

The latest addition to the acclaimed Surfaces series catalogs hundreds of different architectural elements and materials.

This new collection contains over 1,600 high-quality color photographs capturing a range of details and surfaces, organized by architectural elements: walls, facades, windows, doorways, ceilings, roofs, floors, pavement, staircases, balconies, columns, and arches. Architectural Surfaces provides a wealth of source material to meet the research needs of architects and interior designers, artists, scenic designers, and graphic designers. 1600 color illustrations; 2 CD-ROMs included.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #568389 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

Review
Not only...a fantastic research source, it's a beautiful photography book and a fascinating travelogue...Difficult to imagine a more enjoyable reference. -- Theatre Design & Technology: USITT Magazine, Sally Friedman

Outstanding…highly recommended…Professionals and students alike will appreciate the illustrated glossary…four to six good-sized photos on almost every page. -- California Bookwatch

Useful to a wide range of artists including set designers and trompe l'oeil artists, architects and graphic designers. -- Clem Labine's Period Homes, Douglas Klosterman

About the Author
Judy A. Juracek, who lives in Darien, Connecticut, received the 2003 USITT Golden Pen Award for the series.

Customer Reviews

Thousands of color photos AND a cd-rom
Judy A. Juracek's ARCHITECTURAL SURFACES: DETAILS FOR ARTISTS, ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS comes with a cd-rom and provides students and professional practitioners alike with a new addition to the 'Surfaces' series. Hundreds of different architectural features are portrayed in well over a thousand color photos which capture details and provide a subject organization for quick, easy reference. Professionals and students alike will appreciate the illustrated glossary of technical terms, and the wealth of illustration packs four to six good-sized photos on almost every page.

Pictures to give Ideas, Pictures to show Clients
This is a picture book for architects to illustrate various treatments, hundreds of various treatments for surfaces. Surfaces includes walls, facades, ornaments & moldings, columns & posts, windows, dorways, ceilings & roofs, floors & pavement. The concept is to show what has been done by others which can help in filling out their ideas about projects. And it is useful in showing or asking clients for their comments on proposed treatments.

All in all there are some sixteen hundred photographs in the 350 or so pages of the book. The overall design of a building is the first thing that is noticed, but the surface treatment isn't far beyond. And unlike the design, the surfaces from the floor to the ceiling are covered in paint, carpets, drapes, dozens of different treatments. All in all, the surface finishing may be the most expensive part of the building.

This is a reference book that belongs in any architectural library.