Designing the Exterior Wall
Linda Brock
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Description for Designing the Exterior Wall
Hardcover. An eye-opening guide to the art and science of creating a structure's skin Designing the Exterior Wall presents the basics of building science along with a prescribed set of details to help architects understand why buildings fail and how to design them to be more durable. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations, plans. BIC Classification: AM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 281 x 224 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1116.
By presenting the basics of building science along with a prescribed set of details, Designing the Exterior Wall helps you understand why buildings fail and how they can be made more durable through design. Author Linda Brock connects the science and aesthetics of building envelopes through the examination of a variety of construction and cladding types. She features details from real world projects in a variety of climates, successful and unsuccessful case studies, and checklists you can use on your own projects.
By presenting the basics of building science along with a prescribed set of details, Designing the Exterior Wall helps you understand why buildings fail and how they can be made more durable through design. Author Linda Brock connects the science and aesthetics of building envelopes through the examination of a variety of construction and cladding types. She features details from real world projects in a variety of climates, successful and unsuccessful case studies, and checklists you can use on your own projects.
- Helps you reduce your liability by showing why building envelopes fail and how they can be designed ... Read more
- Moves from theory to actual construction by including hundreds of building envelope details from a broad array of projects and climates.
- Integrates numerous contemporary case studies, including Frank Gehry's Experiential Music Center in Seattle (thin skins), Renzo Piano's Rue de Meaux housing in Paris (terra cotta cladding), and Mario Botta's San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (prefabricated brick panels).
Designing the Exterior Wall is a must-have book, whether you're an architect or a student. Order your copy today.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471451914
SKU
V9780471451914
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Linda Brock
LINDA BROCK, a registered architect in the United States and Canada, is an associate professor directing the building technology program in the School of Architecture at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She has given seminars on building envelope design and has conducted investigations of fa?ade failures for more than two decades. Her professional work and research has dealt ... Read more
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