How Buildings Work: The Natural Order of Architecture - Hardcover

Allen, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195091000 ISBN 13: 9780195091007

Verlag: OUP USA, 1996

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Although we live and work in buildings every day, many of us never really understand the concepts behind building design. How Buildings Work presents a broad, balanced view of the physical functions that a building performs, the physical principles under which it performs these functions, and an introduction to the complex interrelationships among these functions. For the building professional, the student, or the amateur, its chapters give lucid, non-mathematical explanations of complex phenomena such as the role of the sun in heating buildings, the design of buildings for protection against fire, and the range of structural devices that are used to support buildings.

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Edward Allen teaches in the School of Architecture at Yale University.


Edward Allen is an architect and teacher who enjoys explaining things through his words and drawings: What makes buildings work, what makes buildings habitable and lovable, how architects' design ideas become realities. He has published seven books on these subjects and teaches in the School of Architecture at Yale University.

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• Verlag: OUP USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0195091000
• ISBN 13: 9780195091007
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 254
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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