After 30 years of successful printing and distribution history, this standard work on structure systems - the most important prerequisite for any architectural design concept - now appears in a new, expanded edition.
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the most important structures book for architects,
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This review is from: Structure Systems (Hardcover)
This is ASTRONOMICALLY THE BEST architectural structures book of all time!! This is the second book for a serious architecture student or architect to buy after Deplazes' foundation book. My structures education was so frustrating because it was not VISUAL. I longed for a book like this 20 years ago!! But better than I could have ever imagined, this book is intensely visual, almost no numbers, instead an encyclopedic catalogue of structural spanning options in a maniacally ordered logic, drawn with a sweet German version of Ching's style. Just skimming this book several times will aquaint you with the logic, the systems, the options, and the breathtaking possibilities this great book throws at your feet. "Take that", it says, "and go do something great!"
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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a great structure index for architect,
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This review is from: Structure Systems (Hardcover)
This is almost the only graphically illustrated book on structural principles for architect.
Most of the structure book concentrate on calculation which are more important to structural engineer than to architect. However, this book put emphasis on structural principals and structural typology. The author uses very clear drawn illustration + table + text to illustrate different structural types. This is a helpful resources if readers are architects interesting in structural design. The book could be more complete if real building examples are illustrated together with the diagrams.
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don't buy it,
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This review is from: Structure Systems (Hardcover)
why on earth would they have this book written in two languages? No where in the product description did I see that this book is half german/ half english, which is ridiculous when you are forced to search for the english words on the page, not to mention the font is quite difficult to read which makes it even worse. The content is quite nice as the other reviews suggest but half the book is essentially a waste of paper. There's a pretty simple solution to make this better, MAKE TWO SEPARATE books with singular languages.
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