The beauty of plans and elevations

In another thread, Dr. Tufte mentioned that everybody should know how to read plan and elevation views. If one is unfortunate enough not to be taught this in school, Anchor building stones provides a very elegant self-study course (albeit a bit expensive)

Go here, and after selecting your preferred language, select Downloads, then Designs, and select a design to open – Pyramidenmonument is fun.

Each design provides perspective views from different angles, then an elevation which assigns a letter to each building course (plan), which is then presented.

What I particularly like about these design booklets is that the builder (me) is assumed to be intelligent. I am expected to be familiar enough with my materials so that labeling each stone used is not necessary. The designs aren’t cluttered up with text hints or exhortations.