05VOLUME
In preparation
Title to be announced
Edizioni Glyphe · by an invited author
The first book in the series entrusted to an invited author. Title, contents and release date will be published here.
04VOLUME
The construction site
Roles, documents, procedures and project management for engineering and architecture
Edizioni Glyphe · first edition, September 2026
Anyone arriving on site from university knows how to size a beam and draw a dimensioned plan. On the first day they discover the questions are different: who signs this document, what happens if nobody signs it, how do we know whether we are behind schedule. The book answers those questions, treating public and private contracts in parallel without confusing the two.
Inside the book
- The roles on site: who does what and who signs
- The documents, from the detailed design to handover, with the procedures that link them
- Applied project management: work breakdown structure, programme, progress control
- Public and private contracts treated in parallel
- Four accompanying worksheets, ready to use on site
- Format
- 17.8 × 25.4 cm
- Pages
- 216
- Figures
- 80 original drawings
- Legislation updated to
- August 2026
- ISBN
- 979-8-1714-5246-9
03VOLUME
Grasshopper and parametric design
Write the rule, the form follows
Edizioni Glyphe · second edition, September 2026
The built-in help tells you what a component does. It does not tell you when you need it, nor what goes wrong: those are the two things you learn by making mistakes, and they are what this book puts in writing. One hundred and twenty-three components chosen from the thousand available because these are the ones actually used, each given half a page: the capsule as it appears on the canvas and, beside it, a drawing of what it produces.
The book opens with a building constructed in full: a tower of rotated floors born from four numbers — plan width, number of floors, floor-to-floor height, twist. Change one and everything redraws, dimensions, envelope, floor slabs and bill of quantities included. The definition is set out across a full page and can be rebuilt without having the file.
Inside the book
- 123 components in nine families: curves, vectors and planes, surfaces, lists and data trees, transformations, numbers and domains, polylines, intersections, preview
- For each one: what it does, when you need it and what goes wrong
- An applied case study for each family and a closing design exercise
- The definition of a building with rotated floors, across a full page
- English-Italian glossary, index of components, analytical index
- Over 120 vector plates drawn for the book
- Intended readers
- Architecture, building engineering, planning
- Prerequisites
- Ability to model in Rhino
- Software
- Rhino 8 · Grasshopper 1, no plug-ins
- ISBN
- 979-8-1921-9092-0
02VOLUME
50 prompts available online
AI for the Project
Edizioni Glyphe · second edition, September 2026
A practical handbook on the use of artificial intelligence in architectural and engineering design, built around a single continuous case study: from reading a hand sketch to the brief, from visualisation to structural analysis under the Italian NTC 2018 code, through to planning analysis and documentary checking.
A revised second edition with 50 prompts: each comes with its own verification panel, because checking the result remains the job of the professional who signs it. The prompts from the book are collected in an online library.
Inside the book
- Seven chapters: from the working method to architectural design, from visualisation to structural analysis, through to planning and applications
- 50 prompts, each with its verification panel
- A single continuous case study, from sketch to documentary checking
- Explicit code references: NTC 2018, Ministerial Decree 5 July 1975, Ministerial Decree 236/1989
- Intended readers
- Designers, students, technical professionals
- Prerequisites
- None
- ISBN
- 979-8-1919-6207-8
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EN English edition
AI for the Project
A working manual for architecture and engineering
The same book in its English edition, with the prompts adapted and the Italian code references spelled out for an international reader. Design and Calculation, volume 2.
ISBN 979-8-1738-2052-5
01VOLUME
AutoCAD 2D
A working manual for architecture and engineering
Edizioni Glyphe · second edition, September 2026
A complete handbook on two-dimensional technical drawing: from setting up the working environment and the coordinate systems to managing layers, styles and blocks, through to dimensioning, paper space and printing to scale. Every topic is covered with guided exercises and recurring cases from professional practice, with the aim of producing consistent drawings ready for issue.
Inside the book
- Setting up the working environment and coordinate systems
- Layers, styles, blocks and external references
- Dimensioning, annotation and annotation scales
- Paper space, layouts and printing to scale
- Guided exercises and cases from professional practice
- Intended readers
- Students and technicians producing their first drawings
- Prerequisites
- None
- ISBN
- 979-8-1917-7248-6
