How Buildings Work: The Natural Order of Architecture

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How Buildings Work: The Natural Order of Architecture

Автор: Edward Allen, David Swoboda

Издательство: Oxford University Press

Дата публикации: July 13, 2005

ISBN: 019516198x

Язык: English

Количество страниц: 288

Формат:PDF

Размер: 14.5 mb

With its homespun drawings and offerings of architectural wisdom for lay readers, this book is like a Whole Earth Catalog building course. In this update of his 1980 edition, however, Allen (architecture, Yale) manages to explain with brevity and common sense "how buildings work." In the opening pages, he places the Earth in the solar system and defines our place on the planet. He then offers analyses of the effects of sun, wind, and cold on building design and location. By focusing primarily on housing, Allen lets readers clearly understand everything from lighting, comfort, and quiet to the basics of making a sturdy structure. He offers occasional but well-placed examples of non-Western design as well. And the illustrations, which look like 1970s instructions for macrame, somehow work.