Architecture

Basics Architecture: Construction & Materiality

Lorraine Farrelly

Basics Architecture: Construction & Materiality is an in-depth exploration of the key materials used in modern architecture.

The book covers materials including stone and brick, concrete, timber, glass, steel and composites. It examines their history, development and practical application in contemporary architecture. Discussion is supported by a variety of case
studies and examples of work taken from best of contemporary architecture, as well as practical student exercises and resources.

Key features

• Explores the history and practical application of the key materials used in contemporary architecture, supported by practitioner interviews, student exercises and resources.
• Includes a variety of case studies and examples of work taken from history, as well as the best of contemporary architecture.
• Presented in a visually stimulating style, designed to appeal to students of the creative arts.

Readership: Intermediate

• Our Basics books provide readers with an in-depth exploration of each of the topics introduced in the Fundamentals titles. These books offer both a theoretical and practical approach, supported by examples and exercises.
• Individual titles can form the basis of specific modules, while the series as a whole functions as a comprehensive reference tool, and can be called upon at any stage of a student’s education.

Very well-rounded, and seems to introduce a very good scope of projects discussing materiality.

Heath Bradley, Montana State University, USA

978 2 940373 83 3

$29.95 srp

176 pages
200 colour images
230mm x 160mm
Paperback with flaps

Autumn 2008