Textbooks — Dan Stine, AIA
04 · Textbooks

Twenty years of textbooks, revised every year

Twenty core titles, more than a hundred ISBNs, 137 editions in print, rewritten every year against a new software release since 2003.

137Titles in print
236,354Copies sold
20Core titles
#1Revit text in academia

The shelf

SDC Publications · since 2003

Twenty core titles, more than a hundred ISBNs, 137 editions in print, and 236,354 copies sold into high schools, community and technical colleges, four-year architecture and interior design programs, and professional offices across North America. Each Autodesk title is rewritten every year for the new release, and every book comes with instructor resources and exercise files.

Residential Design Using Autodesk Revit is the most widely adopted Revit text in the North American academic market. The first edition, written on Revit 5 in 2003, was signed by Autodesk's Carol Bartz and Phil Bernstein.

Building information modeling
Residential Design Using Autodesk RevitCommercial Design Using Autodesk RevitDesign Integration Using Autodesk RevitInterior Design Using Autodesk Revit with Prof. Maria Delgado, Ph.D.Autodesk Revit Command ReferenceAutodesk Revit for Architecture Certified User Exam Preparation
Drawing, modeling, documentation
Chapters in Architectural Drawing: Hand Sketching in a Digital WorldInterior Design Using Hand Sketching, SketchUp, and PhotoshopSketchUp for Interior Designers with Prof. Maria Delgado, Ph.D.Residential Design Using AutoCADCommercial Design Using AutoCAD
The same method carries outside architecture: certification study guides for Microsoft Office, and a series on culinary arts management and food-safety certification used in career and technical education. Author page at SDC Publications ↗
Cover, Residential Design Using Autodesk Revit 2027
Cover, Design Integration Using Autodesk Revit 2027
Cover, Interior Design Using Autodesk Revit 2027
Cover, Chapters in Architectural Drawing: Hand Sketching in a Digital World
Current editions. The sketching book opens with a drawing by the late César Pelli, FAIA, 1995 AIA Gold Medalist, provided at Stine's request after they worked together on Weber Music Hall.

How a title is made

Annual cycle
Every year
Rewritten against the new release
Each Autodesk title is revised for every software version, which is what lets faculty keep a syllabus current. Residential Design Using Autodesk Revit has been through more than twenty.
Built for a term
Instructor resources included
Every book ships with instructor resources, exercise files, and video, so a program can adopt it and teach it in a single semester without building a course from scratch.
Written from practice
Examples from the office
The projects in the books resemble the ones students will meet first in practice. Residential Design ends with a complete house; Commercial Design and Design Integration carry architecture, structure, and MEP through one coordinated model.

Milestones

2003 – 2027
2003
First Revit textbook
Written on Revit 5
The first edition of Residential Design Using Autodesk Revit, signed by Autodesk's Carol Bartz and Phil Bernstein. Autodesk had acquired Revit the year before.
2009
Chapters in Architectural Drawing
Hand Sketching in a Digital World
Opens with a sketch by the late César Pelli, FAIA, 1995 AIA Gold Medalist, provided at Stine's request after they worked together on Weber Music Hall. A second sketching title followed for interior designers.
2010s
Interior design series
With Professor Maria Delgado, Ph.D.
Interior Design Using Autodesk Revit and SketchUp for Interior Designers, co-authored with an interior-design educator.
Ongoing
Certification and reference
Command Reference · Certified User Exam Preparation
Titles for the Autodesk Certified User exam and a command-by-command Revit reference round out the series for programs that teach to the credential.
2027
Current editions
SDC Publications
The 2027 Revit titles are in print, with the AutoCAD, SketchUp, and sketching books alongside them.

Beyond architecture

The same method, other subjects

The same step-by-step approach has been applied to other credentials. Stine has written three certification study guides for Microsoft Office and a series on culinary arts management and Food Protection Manager certification, used in career and technical education programs.

Introduction to Culinary Arts Management, with student workbook
Microsoft Office certification study guides, three titles
Complete list at SDC Publications ↗