Book Description
* Includes many building types such as dormitories, classrooms, and research facilities.
* Covers sweeping changes such as distance learning facilities, technology-driven research laboratories, and electronically enhanced dormitories.
* Contributing industry leaders include Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, Kieren Timberlake, Ruble Yudell, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Ellenzweig Associates, and many others.
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"The series is welcome . . . By providing recent buildings as examples, supported with
technical information and charts of design criteria, these books attempt to bridge the gap between theory and practice."
–Oculus
Building Type Basics books provide architects with the essentials they need to jump-start the design of a variety of specialized facilities. In each volume, leading national figures in the field address the key questions that shape the early phases of a project commission. The answers to these questions provide instant information in a convenient, easy-to-use format. The result is an excellent, hands-on reference that puts critical information at your fingertips.
Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities provides in-depth information that is essential to initiate designs for a variety of building projects–from new construction to renovations and additions–on a diverse range of college and university campuses, from isolated rural environments to large urban settings. Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details, this book combines highly illustrative, specialized material from industry leaders with the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will start any project off on the right track and keep it there through completion.
