2nd Edition
Graphic Design for Architects A Manual for Visual Communication
Introduction
Architects for Graphic Design
Conversation with 2x4
Presenting Yourself
Portfolios
Resumes
Presenting to an Audience
Competitions
Presentations
Books
Architectural Communication
Diagrams
Information Graphics
Maps
Communication as Architecture
Signage and Wayfinding
Super Graphics
Biography
Karen Lewis is a tenured architecture professor at The Ohio State University. She holds degrees from Wellesley College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her research visualizes embodied experience through mapping, drawing, and archival analysis, supported by fellowships at MacDowell, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Newberry Library. A finalist in the Flight 93 National 9/11 Memorial competition, she is the author of Graphic Design for Architects (Routledge, 2015; second edition 2026).
"By clearly demonstrating, both as an example itself as well as through explaining its procedures, the numerous formats and techniques within architecture’s extended field of production and reproduction (Portfolios, RFQs, Proposal Books—the extensive combinations of images, texts, diagrams, and spreadsheets that are, in total, and in various permutations, the architect’s mode d’emploi), Graphic Design for Architects is not only a useful subject, but also a required skill, and now a necessary volume for any architect’s studio bookshelf."
John McMorrough, Professor Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, USA
