Textbooks & Contributions

The following are Douglas Seidler's authored textbooks and contributed textbook for Architecture and Interior Design education.

Digital Drawing for Designers: A Visual Guide to AutoCAD

by Douglas R Seidler

Fairchild Books, 2007

AutoCAD has long been the industry standard for digital drawing—but how do you decide which manual to use? Neither simplistic nor exhaustive, Digital Drawing for Designers teaches by relating to what architects and interior designers understand best: the visual world.

Beginning with the building blocks of drawing (lines, circles, and arcs), students progress to the graphic standards that will allow them to create drawings and communicate their design ideas. Advanced features—such as dimensions, blocks, and linking drawings (XREFs)—are also covered. Instructions are conveyed using the language and concepts of manual drawing that all designers know, enabling them to translate them to the digital environment.

New learners will appreciate the step-by-step lessons, and experienced design professionals can easily access material to refresh their knowledge. Clear, concise, and above all visual, this is the AutoCAD guide written with the real world of designing in mind.

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Interior Design: Practical Strategies for Teaching and Learning

by Katherine S. Ankerson and Jill Pable

Fairchild Books, 2008

Douglas R Seidler contributed a case study to this textbook in Chapter 6: Teaching and Learning at a Distance. This case study explores Seidler's use of free web technologies to extend studio based learning outside the traditional classroom.

Interior Design: Practical Strategies for Teaching and Learning provides a pedagogical approach specifically geared to instruction in interior design. Combining theory with practical application and examples unique to the interior design discipline, the unifying theme of the book is achieving excellence in design education. For first-time teachers whose formal training as educators is more limited than their expertise in the discipline of interior design, this text serves as a primary, specialized resource. For both new and seasoned teachers, it is a handy, just-in-time reference for those sticky situations when one needs a fresh perspective in teaching an idea in a new way. The text is enriched by: case studies; examples of syllabi, grading rubrics, and student critiques; definitions of educational jargon; tables and graphs photos of teaching-related activities and spaces; bibliography for further information on teaching and learning topics.

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