Pre-Design

Please take a look at this page in the NCARB web site http://www.ncarb.org/are/exam2_1.html it contains a list of what NCARB feels you need to review for this part of the exam.

	Archiflash Flashcard Study System for the ARE by NALSA			ARE : Practice Exam, Multiple-Choice Divisions by Larry A. Paul
	The Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice American Institute of Architects			Toward New Towns for America Clarence S. Stein MIT Press, 1966
	The Image of the City Kevin Lynch MIT Press, 1960			A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals Spiro Kostoff Oxford University Press
	Design With Nature Ian L. McHarg John Wiley & Sons, 1992			Modern Architecture: A Critical History Kenneth Frampton Thames and Hudson, LTD. 1992
	A Pattern Language Christopher Alexander Oxford University Press, 1977			Site Planning Kevin Lynch and Gary Hack MIT Press, 1984
	Sir Banister Fletcher’s A History of Architecture John Musgrove Butterworth-Heinmann, 1987			Design of Cities by Edmund N. Bacon
	Architecture Exam Review-Ballast’s Guide to the A.R.E. Volume II: Non-Structural Topics, Fourth Ed. David Kent Ballast, A.I.A. Chapters 14-23 for Materials and Methods. Ch. 23 has a sample test.