Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities - Hardcover

Neuman, David J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471439630 ISBN 13: 9780471439639

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Synopsis

∗ Content ranges from isolated bucolic environments to large urban environments.
∗ Includes many building types such as dormitories, classrooms, and research facilities.
∗ Covers sweeping changes such as distance learning facilities, technology–driven research laboratories, and electronically enhanced dormitories.
∗ Contributing industry leaders include Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, Kieren Timberlake, Ruble Yudell, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Ellenzweig Associates, and many others.

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From the Back Cover:

The fastest way to straighten out the learning curve on specialized design projects

"The series is welcome . . . By providing recent buildings as examples, supported with

technical information and charts of design criteria, these books attempt to bridge the gap between theory and practice."
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Building Type Basics books provide architects with the essentials they need to jump–start the design of a variety of specialized facilities. In each volume, leading national figures in the field address the key questions that shape the early phases of a project commission. The answers to these questions provide instant information in a convenient, easy–to–use format. The result is an excellent, hands–on reference that puts critical information at your fingertips.

Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities provides in–depth information that is essential to initiate designs for a variety of building projects from new construction to renovations and additions on a diverse range of college and university campuses, from isolated rural environments to large urban settings. Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details, this book combines highly illustrative, specialized material from industry leaders with the nuts–and–bolts design guidelines that will start any project off on the right track and keep it there through completion.

About the Author:

DAVID J. NEUMAN, FAIA, is the University Architect and Associate Vice Provost for Planning at Stanford University. His campus plans, historic preservation projects, and individual building and landscape designs have earned him more than sixty national, state, and regional awards.

STEPHEN A. KLIMENT, FAIA (Series Founder and Editor), is an architectural journalist and an adjunct professor at the City College of New York. He was chief editor of Architectural Record from 1990 to 1996.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0471439630
• ISBN 13: 9780471439639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320