00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217611916119 Buklod 20160126163836.0 m |o d | ta 160126s2014 xx d r |||| u| 9780415899796 (pbk) (iLib)UPD-00254206840 DLC DARC rda eng DMLUC NA 2940 Y8 2014 Yu, Mayine author. Skins, envelopes, and enclosures concepts for designing building exteriors Mayine Yu. New York Routledge [2014] x, 266 pages color illustrations 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index "As an architect, you want to integrate the best building envelope construction methods, materials science, and structural principles in your work, but you need a resource to help you. With more than seventy significant case studies located in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia from prehistory to the present, this book illuminates the theory and techniques of assembling exteriors. Six chapters organized by wall types, from hand-set monolithic walls to digitally fabricated curtain walls, each have a material focus section to help you understand their intrinsic properties so that you can decide which will best keep the weather out of your building. Case studies include: Great Wall, China Israeli Supreme Court Building, Jerusalem, Ram Karmi and Ada Karmi-Melamed Fďřation Nationale du Bt́iments, Paris, Jean Prouv̌ Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, Jean Nouvel Morgan Library, New York City, Renzo Piano Katsura Imperial Villa, Kyoto Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK, Sir Norman Foster" Exterior walls. Buildings Protection. Architectural design. ARCHITECTURE / Methods & Materials. bisacsh. ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-). bisacsh. ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945). bisacsh. FO UPD DARC NA 2940 Y8 2014 Book