
Constructing Architecture
Materials, Processes, Structures
Andrea Deplazes(Editor)
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
2nd Edition
Published on 20. June 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
555 pages
978-3-7643-8631-3 (ISBN)
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Description
This internationally prizewinning volume now appears in its third, revised and expanded edition. Since the first edition was published in 2005, it has been adopted as a textbook at many universities.Organized into chapters on "Raw Materials / Building Materials (Modules)," "Elements" (Building Components), "Structures" (Building Methods), and "Buildings" (Examples), the book now includes a new section on "Elevators" in the chapter "Building Components" and on "Shell construction - expansion - core and shell construction" in the chapter "Structures." The chapter on "Buildings" now includes information about the typologies of "courtyard house vs. veranda house." In addition, the examples section has been expanded to cover three new projects whose design processes are documented comprehensively and systematically step by step.Experience with the preceding edition has shown that the book has become an indispensable handbook for reference and reading not only for students and teachers but also for architects.
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Edition
2., nd ed. 2008. 2nd printing
Language
English
Place of publication
Basel
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Illustrations
1740 s/w Abbildungen
555p. 1740 illus.
Weight
2526 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7643-8631-3 (9783764386313)
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Persons
Andrea Deplazes is a professor of architecture and construction at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich). As co-owner of the architectural firm Bearth + Deplazes in Chur, Switzerland, his renown extends far beyond Switzerland's borders.
Content
Additons of 2nd ed.: Glass in application - translucent materials - new chapter on space defining structures - new examples.