How Buildings Work: The Natural Order of Architecture - Hardcover

Allen, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195091000 ISBN 13: 9780195091007

Publisher: OUP USA, 1996

Synopsis

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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"With each of his books Edward Allen demonstrates to his students and to teachers of architecture that the traditional marriage of design and building is not a marriage of convenience. It is based on legitimate family values."--Forrest Wilson, Emeritus Professor of Architecture, The Catholic University of America "With each of his books Edward Allen demonstrates to his students and to teachers of architecture that the traditional marriage of design and building is not a marriage of convenience. It is based on legitimate family values."--Forrest Wilson, Emeritus Professor of Architecture, The Catholic University of America "With each of his books Edward Allen demonstrates to his students and to teachers of architecture that the traditional marriage of design and building is not a marriage of convenience. It is based on legitimate family values."--Forrest Wilson, Emeritus Professor of Architecture, The Catholic University of America "With each of his books Edward Allen demonstrates to his students and to teachers of architecture that the traditional marriage of design and building is not a marriage of convenience. It is based on legitimate family values."--Forrest Wilson, Emeritus Professor of Architecture, The CatholicUniversity of America

From the Back Cover

Illustrated throughout with several hundred clear, sometimes whimsical line drawings, more than half of them from the author's own hand, this easy-to-read work reveals virtually every secret of a building's function: how it stands up, keeps its occupants safe and comfortable, gets built, grows old, and dies - and why some buildings do this so much better than others.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0195091000
• ISBN 13: 9780195091007
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 254