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Architectural Metals: A Guide to Selection, Specification, and Performance

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This book is not for everyone, but if you have a desire to understand architectural metals and how each is used in everyday application, then this is a good starting point. It includes full chapters on each type of metal used in finish design, aluminum, copper, alloys, iron and steel, and even how to coat them be it annodizing or painting. Each chapter fully describes the benefits and characteristics of the metal and explains how to maitain the metal. It also tells how to joint pieces together be it soldering or welding.

Reading this book give a person a lot of insight into architectural metals. Architects and engineers will benefit the most, but anyone with a passing fancy in this subject will find the book positively fascinating.

I have worked for an architectural copper fabrication company for 15 years. Throughout the years, we have heard all sorts of things about metal, metal interactions, different alloys, etc; but this book does a great of separating fact from rumor. It thoroughly examines every major metal and their alloys and explains them in a very easy to understand way. For people in the industry, it is a great reference book (for me, it's just fun reading!. For laypeople, it should still be very understandable. For a metallurgist, well, you'd just be bored - it's probably too basic for you. At my company, parts of it are used for new employee training. I would also recommend it for beginning students in architecture or construction/construction management; and for anyone going into the "metal" trade.