First published in 1936 by Ernst Neufert, [1] its 39 German editions and translations into 17 languages have sold over 500,000 copies. 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. It provides dimensions for almost everything that is ascosiated with building industry, as well as human proportions and minimum - maximum dimensions that come in handy when dealing with furniture design.

The book also includes an extensive bibliography and detailed set of metric/imperial conversion tables. Most of the featured illustrations are dimensioned and each building type includes plans, sections, site layouts and design details. 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.It provides, in one concise volume, the core information needed to form the framework for the more detailed design and planning of any building project. Architects′ Data provides an essential reference for the initial design and planning of a building project. Very good in original laminated card covers with corner creasing and light shelfwear very good minus.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Architects' Data is an excellent resource for architects, building surveyors, space planners, and design and building contractors everywhere. The book is conceived to help the initial design of buildings by providing extensive information about spatial requirements. This fourth English language edition is translated from the 39th German edition, and represents a major new edition for an international, English speaking readership. Organised largely by building type (from airports to zoos), it covers user requirements, planning criteria, basic dimensions and considerations of function and siting.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. 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. Architects' Data ( German: Bauentwurfslehre), also simply known as the Neufert, is a reference book for spatial requirements in building design and site planning. I used it for everything - but the thermal properties of various materials was a particularly useful part. Since it was first published in Germany in 1936, Ernst Neufert's handbook has been progressively revised and updated through 39 editions and many translations.

The Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca worked on the rationalization of architecture within his piece "Neufert Suite" in 1998. The first English version was published in 1970 and was translated from the original German by Rudolf Herz. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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. 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.

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