Architects′ Data

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The book also includes an extensive bibliography and detailed set of metric/imperial conversion tables. Architects' Data ( German: Bauentwurfslehre), also simply known as the Neufert, is a reference book for spatial requirements in building design and site planning. Most of the featured illustrations are dimensioned and each building type includes plans, sections, site layouts and design details.

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.

Organised largely by building type (from airports to zoos), it covers user requirements, planning criteria, basic dimensions and considerations of function and siting. 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. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. 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. In the US, it competes with the most common Architectural Graphic Standards and is little known compared to Germany. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.The book is conceived to help the initial design of buildings by providing extensive information about spatial requirements.