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Form and Forces: Designing Efficient, Expressive Structures

Overview

Here, in one volume, is all the architect needs to know to participate in the entire process of designing structures. Emphasizing bestselling author Edward Allen's graphical approach, the book enables you to quickly determine the desired form of a building or other structure and easily design it without the need for complex mathematics. This unique text teaches the whole process of structural design for architects, including selection of suitable materials, finding a suitable configuration, finding forces and size members, designing appropriate connections, and proposing a feasible method of erection. Chapters are centered on the design of a whole structure, from conception through construction planning. |||This book is sold in the US by Sony Electronics Inc. |||This book is sold in Canada by Sony Electronics Inc.

Author Information

Edward Allen

EDWARD ALLEN has taught for more than thirty years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, and the University of Oregon. He is the bestselling author of Fundamentals of Building Construction, Fifth Edition.

Waclaw Zalewski

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Product Details

  • Published by

    Wiley

  • Publish Date

    September 01, 2011 

  • Print ISBN

    9780470174654

  • eBook ISBN

    9781118174258

  • Imprint

    Wiley

  • Filesize

    41.23 MB

  • Number of Print Pages*

    640

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