Old medieval cathedrals, parish churches, and abbeys have a fascinating architecture with galleries, spiral stairs, and upper chambers. It is a true fascination for scholars and architects since the eighteenth century. We don’t know the reason behind these secret stairs, hidden upper rooms, and the mysterious galleries. Stairway to Heaven: The Functions of Medieval Upper Spaces by Toby Huitson is pure architecture book for professional architects and the people who have interests in this field. This book provides the evidence of the practical functions of these secret stairs and the upper galleries from c. 1000 to 1550. It is revealed through the medieval visuals, artistic media, and the documentary ever combined for it. These will be taking the treasuries to dovecotes, secret games of the skittles, and the libraries to the light of the twelfth century ‘Flying monk’ The author considers these topics with different other related ones to offer a new radical understanding of the medieval functions. This book is written for the professionals and the people who have a strong background of medieval cathedrals. You will come to know about the secret stairways and the galleries of the cathedrals and churches.

The “Landscape Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions), 1st Edition” is an informative book that guides about landscape architecture. Ian H. Thompson is the author of this book. Ian H. Thompson is a Chartered Landscape Architect and Reader in Landscape Architecture in the School of Architecture. He worked as a landscape architect from 1979 to 1992 and mostly work on environmental improvement. He also has written numerous architects’ books and all of them are interesting and engages all the readers from start to end of the page. The author talks about landscape architecture, it has a vital role in shaping the places in which we live and work. Landscape architects design has an attractive and functional public park, gardens, residential areas, playgrounds, college campuses, and public spaces. They also plan the locations of buildings, roads, walkways, flowers, shrubs, and trees within these environments. Landscape architecture in the community has post-industrial projects and their relationship with ecological urbanism. Landscape architecture inspires healthy living and wellbeing while protecting natural environments and people. To know more advantages of Landscape Architecture, then read this informative book.

The “Mastering Autodesk Revit 2020, 1st Edition” is a helpful book to learn all about Autodesk Revit 2020. Robert Yori, Marcus Kim, and Lance Kirby are the authors of this book. Robert Yori is a Senior Product Strategist in CRH America. He has taught and used Revit for nearly 20 years and focused on BIM implementation, big data analysis, knowledge management and learning initiatives as Senior Digital Design Manager at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. This book is filled with detailed exercises and real-world examples to help you get up to speed quickly on the latest version of Autodesk Revit. With the help of this book, the reader will learn how to implement the software. Every topic of this book explains in-depth, and provide expert guidance for all skills levels. Additionally, if you are preparing for Autodesk certification exams or want to become more productive with the architectural design software, then this book is for you. This book guides you from basic interface topics to advanced visualization techniques and documentation. To sum it up, Mastering Autodesk Revit 2020 is a perfect book to learn all about Autodesk Revit 2020.

The “SolidWorks For Dummies, 2nd Edition” is a great book that will help us to get up and running quickly on the leading 3D technical drawing software. Greg Jankowski and Richard Doyle are the authors of this book. Greg Jankowski is the Customer Satisfaction Manager at SolidWorks Corporation. He is the veteran in the CAD industry with experience using SolidWorks, ProEngineer and Computer vision CAD systems in the variety of mechanical design and developmental positions. In this book, the authors guide step by step how to set up SolidWorks to create the type of drawings your industry requires and how to take advantage of its legendary 3D features. They guide the readers on how to work with virtual prototypes, how to use templates and sketch, assemble and create drawings. You will learn how to create dimensions and annotations, how to print your drawings, how to understand the user interface. SolidWorks For Dummies is clear and concise for beginners, as they explain advanced techniques for intermediate users and also a great reference for experienced users. All in all, SolidWorks For Dummies, 2nd Edition is an informative and good explanation book of the CAD tool.

The “A Practical Guide to Bio-inspired Design, 1st Edition” is an informative book for the development of innovative technical products. Helena Hashemi Farzaneh and Udo Lindemann are the authors of this book. Helena is a researcher at the Technical University of Munich. She studied mechanical engineering and received her Ph.D. studying the collaboration between engineers and biologists. He currently researches on bio-inspired design and its integration into the innovation process. Bio-inspired Design has an approach for the development of advanced technical products, such as mechanical engineering products, material science, and computer engineering innovative like robots. Additionally, this book is written to describe the application of bio-inspired design methods and tools. With the help of this book, the reader will learn how to plan a bio-inspired design product, search, analysis and comparison in depth. The goal is to improve modeling and simulation of the biological system to attain a better understanding of the critical structural features. All the topics of this book are explained with examples. In summary, A Practical Guide to Bio-inspired Design is a must-read book for all the readers.