Although we live and work in buildings every day, many of us never really understand the concepts behind building design. How Buildings Work presents a broad, balanced view of the physical functions that a building performs, the physical principles under which it performs these functions, and an introduction to the complex interrelationships among these functions. For the building professional, the student, or the amateur, its chapters give lucid, non-mathematical explanations of complex phenomena such as the role of the sun in heating buildings, the design of buildings for protection against fire, and the range of structural devices that are used to support buildings.
- ISBN10 0195026055
- ISBN13 9780195026054
- Publish Date 15 May 1980
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 245
- Language English