Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures : A Handbook: Second Edition book by Andrea Deplaze

Andrea Deplaze

ISBN 10: 3764386312 / ISBN 13: 9783764386313

Verlag: Birkhauser, 2008

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Titel: Constructing Architecture: Materials, ...

Verlag: Birkhauser

Erscheinungsdatum: 2008

Einband: Softcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 2. Auflage

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"Constructing Architecture is in the best sense a manual [...] that presents materials, components, and structures, based on examples of remarkable architecture and placed in a broader cultural context. It is therefore also suitable for lay readers who want to know how architecture is created." Neue Zürcher Zeitung
 "So, who needs this book? If students read it, they will never again have to shy away from exams, and besides learning some technical tricks, they would understand the meaning of the whole thing. The book is well worth reading and it is fun to browse through, which makes it also recommendable for others." Bauwelt

This internationally prizewinning volume now appears in its third, revised and expanded edition. Since the first edition was published in 2005, it has been adopted as a textbook at many universities.
Organized into chapters on "Raw Materials / Building Materials (Modules)," "Elements" (Building Components), "Structures" (Building Methods), and "Buildings" (Examples), the book now includes a new section on "Elevators" in the chapter "Building Components" and on "Shell construction - expansion - core and shell construction" in the chapter "Structures." The chapter on "Buildings" now includes information about the typologies of "courtyard house vs. veranda house." In addition, the examples section has been expanded to cover three new projects whose design processes are documented comprehensively and systematically step by step.
Experience with the preceding edition has shown that the book has become an indispensable handbook for reference and reading not only for students and teachers but also for architects.

 

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren:

Andrea Deplazes is a professor of architecture and construction at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich). As co-owner of the architectural firm Bearth + Deplazes in Chur, Switzerland, his renown extends far beyond Switzerland’s borders.

Andrea Deplazes ist Professor für Architektur und Konstruktion an der ETH Zürich. Als Mitinhaber des Architekturbüros Bearth + Deplazes in Chur/CH, besitzt er ein über die Schweiz hinaus wirkendes Renommee.