The Architect's Studio Companion
Rules of Thumb for Preliminary Design
7th Edition
Published on 11. August 2022
Book
Hardback
550 pages
978-1-119-82679-8 (ISBN)
Description
The latest edition of the guidebook every architect needs at their fingertips, updated and expanded throughout
Start your designs on solid ground with The Architect's Studio Companion! This comprehensive handbook provides everything you need for the preliminary selecting, configuring, and sizing of the structural, environmental, safety, accessibility, and parking systems of a building. Edward Allen and Joseph Iano, authors of the market-leading Fundamentals of Building Construction, use their trademark talent for boiling down complex technical requirements into easy-to-use, time-saving guidelines for the engineering and architectural design of buildings.
The new seventh edition is fully updated with the latest model building codes, new information on heating and cooling systems for buildings, new structural systems, new requirements for tall mass timber buildings, and more. Throughout the text, straightforward diagrams and user-friendly explanations help you lay out the most important systems of a building in a matter of minutes without stressing about complicated technical concepts. Use this guide to introduce building systems into the early stages of design, and greatly reduce the need for later revisions or redesign-and keep your projects on time and on budget.
Streamline your design process today with The Architect's Studio Companion:
Explore alternative structural systems quickly and efficiently
Compare the carbon impacts of alternative system choices... at a glance
Stay current with the latest information about tall mass timber buildings
Access information on high-performance heating and cooling systems, passive design, natural daylighting, and other sustainable design strategies with ease
Incorporate U.S. and Canadian building code requirements and accessibility regulations into your designs
More than just a reference, The Architect's Studio Companion, Seventh Edition is a must-have companion that no practicing architect or student should be without.
Start your designs on solid ground with The Architect's Studio Companion! This comprehensive handbook provides everything you need for the preliminary selecting, configuring, and sizing of the structural, environmental, safety, accessibility, and parking systems of a building. Edward Allen and Joseph Iano, authors of the market-leading Fundamentals of Building Construction, use their trademark talent for boiling down complex technical requirements into easy-to-use, time-saving guidelines for the engineering and architectural design of buildings.
The new seventh edition is fully updated with the latest model building codes, new information on heating and cooling systems for buildings, new structural systems, new requirements for tall mass timber buildings, and more. Throughout the text, straightforward diagrams and user-friendly explanations help you lay out the most important systems of a building in a matter of minutes without stressing about complicated technical concepts. Use this guide to introduce building systems into the early stages of design, and greatly reduce the need for later revisions or redesign-and keep your projects on time and on budget.
Streamline your design process today with The Architect's Studio Companion:
Explore alternative structural systems quickly and efficiently
Compare the carbon impacts of alternative system choices... at a glance
Stay current with the latest information about tall mass timber buildings
Access information on high-performance heating and cooling systems, passive design, natural daylighting, and other sustainable design strategies with ease
Incorporate U.S. and Canadian building code requirements and accessibility regulations into your designs
More than just a reference, The Architect's Studio Companion, Seventh Edition is a must-have companion that no practicing architect or student should be without.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 275 mm
Width: 222 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
1429 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-119-82679-8 (9781119826798)
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06/2022
7th Edition
Wiley
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05/2022
7th Edition
Wiley
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Book
03/2017
6th Edition
Wiley
€105.17
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Persons
Joseph Iano is an author, illustrator, and practicing architect who has taught design and technology in schools of architecture throughout the United States. He has collaborated on numerous publications over a span of more than 30 years. Currently, he runs a Seattle firm that provides technical, quality management, and communications consulting to the design and construction industry.
Edward Allen, FAIA (1938-2020) taught more than 35 years as a faculty member of Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other North American schools of Architecture and Design. Over the course of a professional career spanning five decades, he influenced a generation of architectural educators, designed more than 50 constructed buildings, and was the best-selling coauthor of Fundamentals of Building Construction, Form and Forces, Architectural Detailing, Fundamentals of Residential Construction, and many other architectural works in print.
Edward Allen, FAIA (1938-2020) taught more than 35 years as a faculty member of Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other North American schools of Architecture and Design. Over the course of a professional career spanning five decades, he influenced a generation of architectural educators, designed more than 50 constructed buildings, and was the best-selling coauthor of Fundamentals of Building Construction, Form and Forces, Architectural Detailing, Fundamentals of Residential Construction, and many other architectural works in print.