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Building Envelopes

An Integrated Approach
Princeton Architectural Press By Jenny Lovell

7 x 8-1/2 in; 144 pp ; 175 color images
Paperback
ISBN 9781568988184
ISBN10 1568988184
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$24.95  

Building Envelopes -- Far from being just a simple outer wall or decorative element, the building envelope, or facade, determines a building's structural stability, climate control, and degree of energy performance. There is an urgent need for architects and allied professionals to gain a greater understanding of how materials and technologies can be applied to meet both aesthetic and performance requirements.

Building Envelopes, the newest volume in our Architecture Briefs series, is a process-based toolkit for both practitioners and academics that advocates designing building envelopes in an integrated way, where appearance, use, context, energy performance, structure, and cost are inseparable and considered in tandem. Featuring clear texts, original diagrams and sketches, and striking photographs, Building Envelopes illustrates how students and practitioners can bring elements like these together to create cost- and energy-effective, yet aesthetically pleasing, facades.