Architectural Structure and Design

Masonry Design-part of the Architect's Guidebook to Structures series-presents the fundamentals in an accessible fashion through beautiful illustrations, simple and complete examples, and from the perspective of practicing professionals with hundreds of projects under their belt and decades of teaching experience.

Illustrated by critical analyses of significant buildings, including examples by such eminent architects as Adler and Sullivan, Erich Mendelsohn, and Louis Kahn, this book examines collaboration in the architectural design process over a period ranging from the mid-19th century to the late 1960s. The examples chosen, located in England.

This book offers the first comprehensive overview of the new architectural possibilities that are offered by cutting edge computational technologies in wood construction.

Written expressly for students, the book makes structures understandable and useful, providing: practical and useful knowledge about structures, a design based approach to the subject of structures and a bridge in the gap between structures and the theory of design.

This book is intended to be a 'first-source' reference-at the desk or in the field-for design professionals, contractors and builders, and developers and building owners.

Processes of Creating Space is a workbook for beginning designers that shows how to generate space with user experiences in mind. The book explains how to keenly perceive your world and seamlessly integrate architectural representation into your design process.

The book offers you simple tools and rules-of-thumb, along with examples of built professional work and successful student projects illustrated by more than 200 images to help you with your work.

Topics include the fundamentals of digital representation, programming and interfaces for design; the shifting landscape of opportunity and expectation in practice and pedagogy; placing sensors in buildings to measure performance; and the challenge of applying information effectively in design.