The book also includes an extensive bibliography and detailed set of metric/imperial conversion tables. Neufert's Architects' Data is an essential reference for the initial design and planning of a building project.

Architects' Data, 6 th Edition starts with the basics of designing for a new building project, before moving on to covering everything an architect needs to know. This new edition of the classic bestselling text provides, in one concise volume, the essential information needed as the basis for the more detailed design and development of any building project. This Third Edition of the English language version has been revised for the first time in 20 years and completely reworked, with 40% more material, to provide a major new edition for an international readership. It may lack a couple of dimensioning sets, but then again this is not an issue, because simply enough you can get anything you need by just combining dimensions from each section.

Since it was first published in Germany in 1936, Ernst Neufert′s handbook has been progressively revised and updated through 35 editions and many translations.

Until 1986, Ernst Neufert was its editor, after which his son Peter took over the publishing with his company AG Neufert Mittmann Graf Partner, until his death in 1995. In the US, it competes with the most common Architectural Graphic Standards and is little known compared to Germany.

Most illustrations are dimensioned, and each building type includes plans, sections, site layouts and design details.

This fourth English language edition is translated from the 39th German edition, and represents a major new edition for an international, English speaking readership. During my studies I discovered this book by accident, and ever since it became part of my architecture bibles! Most illustrations are dimensioned and each building type includes plans, sections, site layouts and design details.

There are additional sections on building components, services and building physics, fire protection, and designing for the disabled. Explora la mayor tienda de eBooks del mundo y empieza a leer hoy mismo en la Web, en tu tablet, en tu teléfono o en tu dispositivo electrónico de lectura. Architects' Data is an excellent resource for architects, building surveyors, space planners, and design and building contractors everywhere. Organised largely by building type, and with over 6000 diagrams, it provides a mass of data on spatial requirements and also covers planning criteria and considerations of function and siting.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. First published in 1936 by Ernst Neufert, [1] its 39 German editions and translations into 17 languages have sold over 500,000 copies. Teaching at Weimar's Bauhochschule from 1926 after graduating from the Bauhaus, Ernst Neufert began to collect data about building, in a way of rationalization. Internally, there are tape residue markings on the end papers, and a previous owner's signature on the front end page. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Organized largely by building type, it covers the planning criteria and considerations of function and location-and with over 6200 diagrams, it provides a mass of data on spatial requirements. Dealing mostly with ergonomics and with functional building layouts, thousands of drawings illustrate the text, organised according to building typologies. Ernst Neufert was a German architect who is known as an assistant of Walter Gropius, as a teacher and member of various standardization organizations, and especially for his essential handbook Architects' data. However I got rid of my old edition and, swayed by all my fellow students, got the Metric Handbook and was very disappointed with it.