By BUILD LLC
BUILD Book Report
This is our second Book Report and we’ve been having a ton of fun with the theme, so they’ll be more to come. Some of the books we cover are hot off the press and need some tire-kicking by us architects in the trenches, and some are books that have simply been around a while for good reason. For previous Book Reports click here.
Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals by Rob Thompson, Thames & Hudson, $95.00
This is a serious book, the kind of book that you’ll actually learn something useful from. The text categorizes manufacturing into 5 clear parts; Forming, Cutting, Joining, Finishing and Materials, all the while explaining the process behind your favorite design objects. The documentation is so concise and thorough that you feel like you’ve just bought a black market text on trade secrets – which justifies the sticker price. This book is so valuable that it should be sold in a black envelope reading “for your eyes only”.
