Architectural Structure and Design

Visually enriched with over 250 photographs and drawings, Bioclimatic Double-Skin Facades is an essential reference guide for understanding the types and functions of double-skin facades.

An overview of the best building envelope construction methods, materials science, and structural principles using case studies to illuminate the theory and techniques of assembling exteriors.

A structural glass facade is a glass wall in which the glass itself is part of the building structure. The fundamental technology of structural facade systems has undergone a transition over the past decade from an emergent, experimental building form to a mature, fully robust technology.

Focused on the design process for architects and related professionals, this is a guide to the design and execution of sophisticated exterior building enclosures for a number of commercial building types and in a variety of building materials.

Small structures such as kiosks, bus shelters, ticket booths are essential to the infrastructure of the city, often an exciting synthesis of architecture and product design, and provide bread-and-butter commissions for many architecture practices.

A rich selection of architectural illumination projects that are setting trends in the creative use of light from all over the world.

This is a book about structures that shows students how to "see" structures as integral to architecture, and how knowledge of structures is the basis for understanding both the mechanical and conceptual aspects inherent to the art of building.

A trove of colour photographs reveals the complex character and endless variety of a basic architectural element: the window.

Timber Design covers timber fundamentals for students and professional architects and engineers, such as tension elements, flexural elements, shear and torsion, compression elements, connections, and lateral design.