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In an exploration of the inner workings of the houses in which we live, the author explains the use of space and light in Japanese homes.
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More Educational than decorative use.......2007-03-26
Bought the book thinking it would show ideas on how to decorate with Japanese furniture and art. All the pictures are in Black and White. Gives more information on "What a Japanese house is", then decorating ideas.
The Inner Harmony of the Japanese House/.......2007-03-14
What a fascinating book. I bought it because I am interested in Japanese architecture, but found so much more. The reasons and explanations of the construction gave me a deeper understanding of the people and their customs.
I liked the book so well that I bought it for my daughter, who is also a
lover of Japan.
Diana Van Vleet
The Good, the Bad and the Very Ugly of Japanese Architecture.......2005-03-14
The original title in japanese was "The Japanese and the house" and that should have been the English title. Don't expect a sales-advertisement trying to sell you japanese architecture as the world's most perfect, showing you only the most perfect examples, like most books on the subject do; this book was written by a Japanese for the Japanese, so it's not trying to fool anyone. Instead, it addresses the good, the bad and the (very) ugly of Japanese architecture in the 1970s, and gives a lot of recommendations for future development. In this sense, this book feels a lot like "A Pattern Language", from Christopher Alexander.
I finished this book in a weekend. Unlike many other translated books on japanese architecture, it has a very clear language and it talks about daily life issues anyone can understand, and do it with a good (sometimes hilarious) sense of humor. It does not go high on insipid philosohpical discussions, but it really goes deep into the roots of current day virtues and vices of japanese architecture.
Don't expect color photographs, floor plans or sections; this books was not illustrated by the author, but by the editor. The original work is text-only. Even if it were to be stripped from the b/w photos it has, it is still a very entertaining book, that reads almost like a novel, and will make you learn a lot of thing about the realities and problems of Japan while having some good laughs. It's really refreshing to find a book on architecture that talks about real life needs instead of difficult-to-understand philosophical concepts.
This is great!.......2004-04-09
I am writing my own book, set in the traditional Japan. This books is a marvelous help in getting the feel of the place and period with which I am working. I don't know how I could get along without this book!
It presents its information in a clear, concise manner that is easy for me to understand, and the pictures really give you a feel not just for the house, but for the mindset of the people who live there. I recommend this book to anyone studying the Japanese culture.
An unexpected delight.......2001-11-25
I am not an architect, nor am I Japanese, but I have lived in Japan and love Japanese-style rooms. I picked this book up merely because I was interested in the topic, and thought I'd get just a dry description and maybe some floor plans. Was I wrong! This book is a delight, not merely for the content-- which is a thorough introduction to the pieces of the Japanese house and the 'why' behind them-- but also for the social comment the author makes about various facets of the lives of the people who live in these houses. Ueda's opinion comes through clearly, but that's what makes this book such a good read (his solution to the unslightly-futons-on-the-balcony problem had us in stitches, and his bad attitude toward flat roofs is a riot). He starts with the base of the house (the pillars) and works all the way out to the locks on the door. He's got a nice sense of history, and you can tell he himself is very fond of the traditional house. A delightful read!
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- Excellent!... It's my #1 choice in my Top 5 perspective books...
- Older text - at times difficult to read
- Slender, but without question the FINEST of all introductions on PERSPECTIVE
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Perspective Drawing Handbook (Dover Art Instruction)
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Concise, thoughtfully written text on drawing and sketching, accompanied by more than 150 simply drawn illustrations, provides important information on such subjects as diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, and other visual principles of perspective. Illustrations depict a sense of space and depth, demonstrate vanishing points and eye level.
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Just plain wrong.......2007-07-02
Please don't buy this inaccurate text. It has at least one major flaw. The author incorrectly claims that the horizon is always at eye level. It's easy to see that's false. Walk into the Grand Canyon and you'll notice that the horizon is well above eye level.
Excellent!... It's my #1 choice in my Top 5 perspective books..........2006-11-07
This is currently my favorite perspective book! If I listed my Top 5, it would have to be: Perspective Drawing Handbook; Perspective Made Easy; Perspective! for Comic Book Artists; Basic Perspective Drawing: A Visual Guide, 4th edition; and then Creative Perspective for Artists and Illustrators. Perspective Drawing Handbook is my favorite because it's clear, concise, slim & to the point. It's very enlightening! In my opinion, Joseph D' Amelio was a genius in his understanding of perspective & his ability to communicate this to others. Because this book is so slim, clear & reasonably priced, I would highly recommend this to anyone & *everyone* interested in learning about perspective-based drawing. Even if it doesn't become your favorite overall, it's certainly worth having in your collection, as perspective is such a difficult topic that it's really best to buy a number of books. And if you're going to buy a number of books, it would help to know which are the *best* while at the same time being reasonably priced. This is at the top of my list! Three-point perspective *is* covered here, although he mostly avoids this term and instead calls this "looking up & down". It's simplistic in its approach, but that's what great teachers are about: taking difficult concepts & making them easy to understand. The writing can be a little stiff, but this book relies mostly on visuals, which is exactly what I prefer! There really aren't that many words here, especially when compared to another book I recently reviewed: Creative Perspective for Artists and Illustrators. If you think Perspective Drawing Handbook is a bit too wordy, than you'd definitely want to stay away from Creative Perspective! Perspective Drawing Handbook: my highest recommendation!
Older text - at times difficult to read.......2006-08-27
Too much text, not enough drawing. I much prefer Perspective: space and design
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Slender, but without question the FINEST of all introductions on PERSPECTIVE.......2004-06-29
"PERSPECTIVE DRAWING HANDBOOK" by Joseph D`Amelio
Amelio really packed this book with well-illustrated covering of Perspective in Black & White. Better still, D`Amelio manages to keep text down to the bare essentials, preferring to illustrate the point rather than describe it. Fascinating. Nicely put together, and very concise at 96 pages. I really liked it.
Suggested retail at $8.95 this is a good reference, and eminently affordable. It seemed quite deserving of FIVE STARS for making an obscure subject clear to the general public with a direct, no-nonsense approach. What Stephen Rogers Peck does for anatomy, is what D'Amelio does for teaching PERSPECTIVE.
Indespensible perspective reference:.......2000-06-20
D'Amelio has laid out the basics of mechanical perspective drawing in easy to follow steps with clear illustrations. Readily adaptable to instruction for the general audience and eminently practical with illustrations for many basic and more complex perspective problems, the text is well organized as well as intertaining. I have used this text to teach perspective in high school drawing classes for 15 years.
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- the BEST serious perspective drawing book available
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Perspective Drawing: A Step-by-Step Handbook
Michael E. Helms
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Practical, step-by-step approach to perspective, shading, and projection. Features superb pedagogy, summary statements, exercises, illustrations. (vs. James, Konig, Montague).
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Great material, cheap quality.......2006-01-24
This book seems to cover the material very well. I say it seems to because the copy I received is a cheap xerox and it was immediately apparent that it wasn't going to hold up to repeated use. After browsing through it once the covers had already started to split and I had to return it. I expect better for $83.00.
the BEST serious perspective drawing book available.......2005-04-06
This book contains the best most thoroughly explained and demonstrated professional use of the measuring point (MP) direct measure perspective method, as well as the other common perspective methods, that I have ever seen in my 30 years as an architect. For those who want to know how to fish rather than be given a fish, this is THE book. If you own only one book on perspective drawing, this should be that book. If you wish, combine it with Architectural Graphics by Francis D. K. Ching, Drawing as a Means to Architecture and Design Drawing both by William Kirby Lockard and Perspective for Interior Designers (especially interesting for deriving and understanding original perspective setups from finished drawings or photographs) by John Pile, and you will never need buy another book on perspective drawing (Of course I own several others anyway). The really nice thing about the MP method is that you can accurately determine the finished size of your perspective drawing before doing the drawing AND project scaled measurements directly into the perspective as you create it. No one explains and demonstrates this more completely and effectively than Helms. Shade and shadow are just as carefully discussed and illustrated. Short cut methods and techniques for getting out trouble, such as finding your way when no vanishing points seem available, are covered with the underlying understanding always near and emphasized to lend the necessary support. This unpretentious book is not an outstanding demonstration of rendering technique and does not intend to be; many others have done that well enough. But, better than any other, the book reveals the practical inner workings of perspective drawing, step-by-step. Job very well done Michael E. Helms! Thank you.
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The art of sketching from nature
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A handbook of perspective drawing
James Caddall Morehead
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Perspective and Other Drawing Systems (Design Handbooks)
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Manufacturer: Amiel Book Distributors Corp
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Book Description
Lynne Truss's 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' injected new life into the long-standing arguments over rights and wrongs in English usage. Now David Crystal brings together his own distinctive style and unique expertise to provide the first thorough-going assessment of the ongoing debate. With a lively, humorous, and accessible approach, Crystal charts the battles past and present, illustrating the characters and attitudes involved from a wide range of written sources. He combines a chronological survey of key influences in the area of usage with discussion of particular themes such as punctuation, spelling, and pronunciation. And he looks ahead to the future in the context of recent education policy shifts. A positive and compelling case is made for variation in usage of English based on appropriateness of situation, arguing that 'zero tolerance' in relation to language is a profoundly flawed approach. Crystal offers an original and authoritative counter-argument to the prescriptivist agenda that has been expounded in many accounts of English usage over the years. The Fight for English is the book that everyone concerned with English usage has been eagerly awaiting.
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Yes, I liked it.......2007-08-01
This is a great read, especially if you are into the evolution of our language. I read a lot of this stuff. I got interested in this area years ago when I watched the Story of English on PBS. That was perhaps 20 years or more ago. I don't try to pick up the historical pronunciation, because in my case, it would be impossible. The great thing that one comes away with is that English is still evolving.
The Big Con.......2007-01-29
Is your English educated or uneducated? Grammatical or ungrammatical? Urban or provincial? Standard or dialect? U or Non-U? Lered or lewed (to use the words that distinguished the high prestige English dialect from low presitige ones centuries ago)?
All these terms imply something about people's social standing as well as they way they speak. And that's no coincidence. It's part of what David Crystal calls "the Big Con," recalling the movie The Sting.
Crystal calls his book a "history of usage," but its focus is the history of prescriptivism in English, written to learn why Lynne Truss's book, Eats, Shoots and Leaves, is so popular.
Crystal may be the most interesting writer on English. (I can't pick between him and the Australian linguist Kate Burridge, author of Blooming English and Weeds in the Garden of Words.) I was a little concerned The Fight for English might be a recapitulation of Crystal's The Stories of English, but it's not.
Crystal looks at how English evolved from a group of different but equal dialects to a presitigious dialect trying to keep it's status over other ways of talking that refused to be extinguished. This book isn't meant as sociology, but you do learn about the development of the British class structure.
The most interesting part of the book is Crystal's story of growing up in Wales and Liverpool, learning to speak the right dialects so he didn't get beaten up on the playground or get a ruler on the back of the hand in class, where "educators" instilled in him the Received Pronunciation (what was then "BBC English"). The playground and the ruler both work.
Crystal shows how the institutions that matter to us (like schools, the BBC, and The Simpsons) teach us about language.
Crystal calls for a similar kind of language education that Anthony Burgess did in his 1992 book, A Mouthful of Air - - something between technical linguistics and old-fashioned prescriptivist "grammar." Crystal uses the analogy of a mechanic friend who can fix any car but is a lousy driver. Being a good driver takes more than knowing how an engine works. Grammar isn't everything.
The Fight for English is also funny. Like the university student who thought (for a good reason) that a preposition had something to do with getting on a horse.
And the humor in Crystal's book brings up another important point, one of the things that make all of his books a pleasure to read. It's easy for a professional linguist to mock "language mavens" like Fowler, Strunk and White, Lynne Truss, and other prescriptivist critics. (And in this book Crystal does show in specific cases why these language guardians don't know as much as they think they do.) But Crystal, unlike many "experts" is very respectful of other people's opinions, even (or especially) when they disagree with him. That's a change from argument in Britain and America lately.
As Crystal says, "Pedants have their place. . . . without them, there would be no way of teaching young people how not to be pedantic."
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Grammar of the Shot is a manual for those who are about to embark on a career in shooting pictures. It is aimed at the novice, concentrating purely on the principles of shooting - still the best way to tell a visual story.
Written in simple, easy-to-follow language and illustrated with clear uncomplicated line drawings, the book sets down the fundamental knowledge needed to achieve acceptable results.
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· is a sister volume to Grammar of the Edit
· has been extensively tested in Europe, Asia and Africa
· lists, examines and explains the conventions and working practices of taking pictures.
Jargon free and easy to read
Explains the fundamental principles
A foundation on which the novice can apply practical experience
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THE BEST BOOK FOR THE LANGUAGE OF THE FILM.......2001-07-06
This book is AMAZING.I'm a film student and i have to say i learned more from this book than the past three years in school.
excellent work.......2000-12-07
This book, shall we say, 'cuts to the chase scene' of what to look for in a good shot.
Rather than contain lots of useless trivia look so many other books on filmaking and editing ["here's what a movieola looks like...it was invented in 1272 by Sir Random Dingleberry...", etc.], this book describes in no uncertain terms what ABSOLUTELY MUST BE IN EACH AND EVERY SHOT -- so that the successful film-maker can build a story that flows smoothly. This book will help you to be artistic, but will also help you to avoid confusing your audience. A small book that is easily read in the space of an hour, the student or novice film-maker will find himself using it as a quick reference many times over. Highly recommended.
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When a woman goes to Glamour Shots, she looks beautiful. When anyone uses Grammar Shots, their language looks beautiful. Become a beautiful grammarian.
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Long adventure stories featuring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and other standard Disney characters.
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The Circus Book (Disney's World of Adventure)
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