is Doug Graf in there?!?

.. i dont think so...

oh i don't really like these AD quasi-books. somehow, i feel there is an overestimating optimism in delivering some theme or the other...and eventually, it pans out to be very life unchanging. and AD books always come way after the fact and seem to present the presented rhetoric as being very present...whereas its quite passe'.

i haven't read this particular book of course..but an AD book on diagrams sounds to me like a retro rehashing of a now-commonplace topic. really, in essence, i think diagrams are mute and mutable things that can are best practiced and perceived...not as much discussed. its quite possible that diagramming has been more discussed than practiced, no?

Doug Graf should definitely be there haha! Love that guy!

looking at the brighter side, one has to know diagrams in-depth, hoping that his representational skills of the idea/parti would be better. bye bye $44 bucks

one cannot know diagrams in-depth without one knowing the one and only Doug Graf

can somebody who owns the book produce a parti diagram of it?

not sure if you're looking for other book recommendations but in case you are, you should definitely check out Precedents in Architecture. very clear simple diagrams.

http://www.amazon.com/Precedents-Architecture-Analytic-Diagrams-Formative/dp/0470946741/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336521619&sr=8-1

but why? why buy a book specifically on diagrams? if you understand the principle of diagrams, take a nice building's plans, sections and so on..analyze it diagramatically yourself. you will gain much more this way.  if i were to recommend a book on how diagrams are used...rather than fetishized...perhaps, i'd cite the geoffrey baker books. this method, however, can be rather too pedantic and too counter intuitive...but the focus is on analysis of a completed design so it is expected to run counter-design. still, there is clarity in the method and in the place of the diagram.

I was just starting to watch the lecture from some of the contributors of the book:

http://www.aaschool.ac.uk//VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=1204

Maybe that will give you some more to think about?

I actually watched this before getting the book. The lecture is really substantial and informative. the book however, well; i just added to my shelf a much needed compendium of theoretical essays about the diagram. i just thought these authors are like '' ok lets publish a book and make theories about everything.. how about the toilet bowl? the measuring tape?