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The Architect's Studio Companion

Rules of Thumb for Preliminary Design
By Edward Allen and Joseph Iano
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The Architect's Studio Companion is an essential guidebook for architects, offering clear and concise advice on preliminary design decisions. It covers structural, environmental, safety, accessibility, and parking systems, helping users choose and size these elements efficiently. The seventh edition includes updates on building codes, tall mass timber buildings, and modern heating and cooling technologies, with straightforward diagrams and explanations to simplify complex concepts. This book aims to streamline early design stages, reducing revisions and keeping projects on schedule and within budget.
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Ideal for practising architects and architecture students who need a practical, time-saving reference to guide building system design and ensure compliance with code requirements. Also valuable for those interested in sustainable and high-performance building strategies.

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The latest edition of the guidebook every architect needs at their fingertips, updated and expanded throughout.

Start your designs on solid ground with The Architect’s Studio Companion! This comprehensive handbook provides everything you need for the preliminary selecting, configuring, and sizing of the structural, environmental, safety, accessibility, and parking systems of a building. Edward Allen and Joseph Iano, authors of the market-leading Fundamentals of Building Construction, use their trademark talent for boiling down complex technical requirements into easy-to-use, time-saving guidelines for the engineering and architectural design of buildings.

The new seventh edition is updated with new building codes, new information on heating and cooling systems for buildings, new structural systems, new requirements for tall mass timber buildings, and more. Throughout the text, straightforward diagrams and user-friendly explanations help you lay out the most important systems of a building in a matter of minutes without stressing about complicated technical concepts. Use this guide to introduce building systems into the early stages of design, and greatly reduce the need for later revisions or redesign—and keep your projects on time and on budget.

Streamline your design process today with The Architect’s Studio Companion:

  • Explore alternative structural systems quickly and efficiently
  • Compare the carbon impacts of alternative system choices… at a glance
  • Stay current with the latest information about tall mass timber buildings
  • Access information on high-performance heating and cooling systems, passive design, natural daylighting, and other sustainable design strategies with ease
  • Incorporate U.S. and Canadian building code requirements and accessibility regulations into your designs

More than just a reference, The Architect’s Studio Companion, Seventh Edition is a must-have companion that no practising architect or student should be without.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119826798

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 June 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Edition: 7th edition

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 46.0mm

Width: 224.0mm

Height: 277.0mm

Weight: 1406g

Pages: 512

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About the Author

Joseph Iano is an author, illustrator, and practicing architect who has taught design and technology in schools of architecture throughout the United States. He has collaborated on numerous publications over a span of more than 30 years. Currently, he runs a Seattle firm that provides technical, quality management, and communications consulting to the design and construction industry.

Edward Allen, FAIA (1938-2020) taught more than 35 years as a faculty member of Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other North American schools of Architecture and Design. Over the course of a professional career spanning five decades, he influenced a generation of architectural educators, designed more than 50 constructed buildings, and was the best-selling coauthor of Fundamentals of Building Construction, Form and Forces, Architectural Detailing, Fundamentals of Residential Construction, and many other architectural works in print.

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