The Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca worked on the rationalization of architecture within his piece "Neufert Suite" in 1998. 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. The first English version was published in 1970 and was translated from the original German by Rudolf Herz. In the US, it competes with the most common Architectural Graphic Standards and is little known compared to Germany. 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.

Most illustrations are dimensioned, and each building type includes plans, sections, site layouts and design details.It also looks at the design styles and specifications for creating different types of structures, such as those made for residential, commercial, religious, cultural, sports, medical and other types of occupation. 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. The dust jacket is shelf rubbed, edge worn and marked, with creases and small, closed tears along the edges. Organised largely by building type, it covers the full range of preliminary considerations, and with over 6200 diagrams it provides a mass of data on spatial requirements.

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. 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. 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.Dealing mostly with ergonomics and with functional building layouts, thousands of drawings illustrate the text, organised according to building typologies. During my studies I discovered this book by accident, and ever since it became part of my architecture bibles! 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.