Architectural Structure and Design

Seismic isolation offers the highest degree of earthquake protection to buildings and their inhabitants. Modern applications of the technology are less than 50 years old and uptake in seismically active regions continues to soar. Seismic Isolation of Buildings is a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice in this field.

Protection has always been the most genuine function of architecture. In the context of global warming one of the most needed type of protection is from and against the sun. This necessity has led to an impressive creative outburst of amazing technology.

Part of the PocketArchitecture Series, this is the ideal pocketbook for any designer serious about reducing the energy impact of their buildings.

The primary objective of daylight systems is to make maximum use of daylight for various building types and climates. This book documents all aspects of the optimum use of daylight with particular reference to window orientation, light distribution, and prism technology, and discusses the health and economic related aspects.

This authoritative and multi-disciplinary book provides architects, lighting specialists, and anyone else working daylight into design, with all the tools needed to incorporate this most fundamental element of architecture.

PDR assesses the nature, productivity, and results of 'collisions' within the design process - whether these are conflicts of ideas, culture, or practice. This book is a clear approach to interdisciplinary concepts.

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.

Features staged paths and innovative floorplan concepts.