Architecture, from prehistory to post-modernism
Marvin Trachtenberg, Isabelle Hyman
History of buildings, groups of buildings, the styles in which they were built, and the architects responsible for them from Stonehenge to the present.
Read Time: ~7 hr
Design and the economics of building
by Ralph Morton and David Jaggar (1995)
About this book
An understanding of how the design and construction processes interact to determine the cost and quality of buildings is essential to architects, builders and surveyors. Design and the Economics of Building is a text for students in all the built environment fields. It takes a fresh approach to the important issues involved in the building process and their relationship to each other, dealing among other topics with the cost and construction implications of design decisions; the way design affects, and is affected by, the construction process; the economics of building's essential resources - labour, materials and technology; the cost of energy efficiency; methods of cost prediction and control; procurement systems and their implications for cost, time and quality; information flow between designers, surveyors and contractors; and the value of buildings, determined by market and social criteria. With its wide scope, readability and generous use of examples and references to recent projects, Design and the Economics of Building will be of interest to all those concerned with the built environment as well as being an essential text for architecture, surveying and construction management students.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreDesign and the economics of building Lead Character
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