Abstract
IN recalling the important buildings upon which architects and their assistants worked in bygone years, it does not seem as if the elaborate ‘simplicity’, claimed for this book, is required. Speci¬ fications and details were prepared in those days with an assurance and success, which no mere “graphic and diagrammatic assembly of data, standards and information” would have produced. If this book may be regarded as supplying between two covers a large amount of valuable information for students, it is well, though greater simplicity might be desired. It may be seriously doubted whether any practising architect in Great Britain would be troubled with this, or any similar, work. It would not be proper to criticise American building methods unfavourably because they differ from English methods; suffice it to note, that the authors have shown their knowledge and have exercised their skill and ungrudging labour in the preparation of the book.
Architectural Graphic Standards: for Architects, Engineers, Decorators, Builders and Draftsmen.
Charles George
Ramsey
Harold Reeve
Sleeper
By. Pp. ix + 233. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1932.) 37s. 6d. net.
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M., P. Architectural Graphic Standards: for Architects, Engineers, Decorators, Builders and Draftsmen . Nature 131, 224 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131224c0
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