Skins, envelopes, and enclosures : concepts for designing building exteriors /
"As an architect, you want to integrate the best building envelope construction methods, materials science, and structural principles in your work, but you need a resource to help you. With more than seventy significant case studies located in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia from...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "As an architect, you want to integrate the best building envelope construction methods, materials science, and structural principles in your work, but you need a resource to help you. With more than seventy significant case studies located in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia from prehistory to the present, this book illuminates the theory and techniques of assembling exteriors. Six chapters organized by wall types, from hand-set monolithic walls to digitally fabricated curtain walls, each have a material focus section to help you understand their intrinsic properties so that you can decide which will best keep the weather out of your building. Case studies include: Great Wall, China Israeli Supreme Court Building, Jerusalem, Ram Karmi and Ada Karmi-Melamed Fdration Nationale du Btiments, Paris, Jean Prouv Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, Jean Nouvel Morgan Library, New York City, Renzo Piano Katsura Imperial Villa, Kyoto Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK, Sir Norman Foster"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 266 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203785294 0203785290 9781135040680 1135040680 9781135040666 1135040664 9781135040673 1135040672 9781299813823 1299813828 |