Building Type Basics for Housing

Chandler, Robert; Clancy, John; Dixon, David; Goody, Joan; Wooding, Geoffrey; Lawrence, Jean

ISBN 10: 0471319309 / ISBN 13: 9780471319306

Published by Wiley, 2004

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Title: Building Type Basics for Housing

Publisher: Wiley

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: hardcover

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

Finally, a nuts–and–bolts guide to all the design considerations for a variety of housing–from planning and site layout to building design. Complete with descriptive illustrations, this useful resource offers essential information, guidelines, and planning concepts for building projects for single–family detached units; townhouses; multi–family; mid–rise and high–rise buildings; and housing in mixed–use buildings.

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The fastest wayto 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, planners, and developers with the essentials they need to jump–start the design of a variety of specialized building types. 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–follow format. The result is an excellent, hands–on reference that puts critical information at professionals′ fingertips.

Building Type Basics for Housing is a nuts–and–bolts guide to all the design considerations for a variety of housing from planning and site layout to building design. Complete with descriptive illustrations, this useful resource offers essential information, guidelines, and planning concepts for building projects for single–family detached units; townhouses; multi–family; mid–rise and high–rise buildings; and housing in mixed–use buildings.