Archidoodle: The Architect's Activity Book
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This innovative book is the first to provide a fun, interactive way to learn about architecture. Filled with an array of beautiful and elegant drawings, it poses all manner of architectural challenges for the user: from designing your own skyscraper, to drawing an island house or creating a Constructivist monument, plus many others more. Aimed at anyone who loves drawing buildings, it encourages the user to imagine their own creative solutions by sketching, drawing and painting in the pages of the book. In so doing, they will learn about a whole range of significant architectural issues, such as the importance of site and materials, how to furnish a space, how to read plans, how to create sustainable cities and so on. The book also includes numerous examples of works and ideas by major architects to draw inspiration from and will appeal to everyone from children to students to architects. Review: Fun book to create with - I like the Archidoodle: The Architect's Activity Book. It gets the juices flowing for creating unusual and interesting buildings you otherwise never would have designed. It isn't a textbook or anything on a technical training level but it is a fun book to just create away in. For example, you are instructed to design a house by a cliff and one by a waterfall all the way to design and draw a sectional view of a house that has been influenced by a machine. Some ideas are fascinating like design a funky-looking chimney or design some ideas for domesticated animals, (other than a dog), with one idea showing a cat basket that hangs off a radiator. Some thought-provoking ones too like using a mountain slope, design in section the arrangement of a small thermal bath house and you are asked to consider views, light and privacy. So it can go from designing something simple to the very complex. I recommend this book to any novice architect, but I also recommend this to any pro out there too, because this book will get you to open up your skills and design things you might have never designed otherwise. There are plenty of buildings, cities and houses to design as well. One bobble is that most scenes are set so one is a little limited by set scenes to draw a building or a city, but that too is a challenge I kind of like since it makes you think about how to overcome a set scene and yet still design a great house, building or city. Just keep in mind this is a fun book to just create in. I love this book and I think you will too. Review: Fun, but it's a doodle book - This book was not exactly what I was hoping for, but we still really enjoy it. The book is mostly prompts for drawing exterior concepts of buildings/structures or mirroring the doodle of a building. The book doesn't have instructions or information about drafting, architectural drawing, etc. It's a doodle book with an architectural theme.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 961 Reviews |
B**Y
Fun book to create with
I like the Archidoodle: The Architect's Activity Book. It gets the juices flowing for creating unusual and interesting buildings you otherwise never would have designed. It isn't a textbook or anything on a technical training level but it is a fun book to just create away in. For example, you are instructed to design a house by a cliff and one by a waterfall all the way to design and draw a sectional view of a house that has been influenced by a machine. Some ideas are fascinating like design a funky-looking chimney or design some ideas for domesticated animals, (other than a dog), with one idea showing a cat basket that hangs off a radiator. Some thought-provoking ones too like using a mountain slope, design in section the arrangement of a small thermal bath house and you are asked to consider views, light and privacy. So it can go from designing something simple to the very complex. I recommend this book to any novice architect, but I also recommend this to any pro out there too, because this book will get you to open up your skills and design things you might have never designed otherwise. There are plenty of buildings, cities and houses to design as well. One bobble is that most scenes are set so one is a little limited by set scenes to draw a building or a city, but that too is a challenge I kind of like since it makes you think about how to overcome a set scene and yet still design a great house, building or city. Just keep in mind this is a fun book to just create in. I love this book and I think you will too.
J**B
Fun, but it's a doodle book
This book was not exactly what I was hoping for, but we still really enjoy it. The book is mostly prompts for drawing exterior concepts of buildings/structures or mirroring the doodle of a building. The book doesn't have instructions or information about drafting, architectural drawing, etc. It's a doodle book with an architectural theme.
A**A
Very unique/cool gift
The book itself had a couple of small marks on the outside of it, but no big deal. The book itself is really cool and a unique gift for an architecture student/enthusiast. My boyfriend is in grad school for architecture now so it was great for him to get creative in his free time :)
T**S
Fun for a young teen
This was a gift for my son who likes to draw. He has shown an interest in learning to draw buildings and is thinking of architectural drafting or rendering when he gets older. I though this would be a great book for him to get started on some basics and give him so activities to try on his own. He LOVES it! Lots of great examples of different parts of a building he can use to give a drawing more texture. He's 14 and this is at just the right level for him.
M**N
Nice quality book.
Nice thick pages. Very nice gift for a friend who likes to draw. Many ideas for drawing and adding to art already printed in the page.
J**Y
Yes for aspiring archis!
Gave this to an 11 year old aspiring Architect and he absolutely loves it! I bought this thinking itโs a trace and draw but surprised that you actually have to create your own versions/ ideas. Wonderful!
W**I
Fun, Interesting and Educational - Fantastic Drawing Book
This is an absolutely fantastic book for anyone interested in Architecture. I bought it for my (very mature) 12 year old and she has not put it down. There are lots of architecture terms and how to's. Honestly, I bought it as one of the Amazon "buy these three" and didn't expect much but it ended up being a fun, interesting book.
K**H
My son loves it
My 12-year-old has aspirations of being an architect as a career. Got this as an activity to do this summer and he really enjoys it. He does several pages a day and has gotten quite creative in his designs.
C**E
Es increรญble
El libro es muy lindo! Originalmente lo comprรฉ como un regalo para un amigo de la universidad, pero al verlo definitivamente tuve que comprar otro para mรญ tambiรฉn, estรก pensado para fomentar la creatividad a la hora de diseรฑar, y los bocetos del libro son fascinanes. Ojo, no es un libro de dibujo tรฉcnico, es para soltar la mano y la imaginaciรณn, (no forzosamente para alguien que estudie arquitectura o diseรฑo). Lo recomendarรญa completamente, vale muchรญsimo la pena.
A**J
Good
Bought for my neice who loved it.
M**Y
Archidoodle
Really great prompts, creative but still practical, would really recommend!
A**Y
Good for budding architects.
Shows different techniques.
C**E
Great gift idea.
My son-in-law loves this book!
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