ARCHITECTURE

Following on from the author's previous book, Structure and Architecture, this book is

concerned with the preliminary stages of the design of structures for buildings and deals with

the issues involved in structural decision making at a strategic level.

It is intended principally for use by students of architecture and will provide them with the

information required to make sensible choices on the structural aspects of architectural

design. The topics covered in the book include choice of structural material, the

determination of the form and geometry of structures, the integration of the structure with

other aspects of architectural design and the preliminary allocation of dimensions to the

principal structural elements. It is essentially a non-mathematical treatment. Calculation

procedures are reduced to the minimum compatible with achieving a meaningful

approximation to the required member dimension.

Dr Angus Macdonald is currently the Head of the Department of Architecture at the

University of Edinburgh. He specialises in the teaching of structural design and architectural

history. He is the author of several other books including Windloading on Buildings and

Structure and Architecture which was published by Butterworth-Heinemann in 1994.

Cover: Cambridge Law Faculty, Cambridge, England. Sir Norman Foster & Partners, Architects.

Anthony Hunt Associates, Structural Engineers. Photograph: Dennis Gilbert

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