INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY

Pete Silver and Will McLean with Dason Whitsett

Understanding the relationship between design and technology is critical to the understanding of architecture. Aimed clearly at architectural students, this book provides an accessible introduction to all aspects of architectural technology: structural physics, structural elements and forms, heating, lighting, environmental control, and computer modeling. The book sets out to explain the relationships between physical phenomena, materials, building elements, and structural types, using simple classification systems and real world examples.

2008 / 192 pp / 400 ill. / 978-1-85669-566-4 / pb / $29.95