* A hands-on; well-illustrated reference that helps architects and contractors avoid making common errors in traditional construction details * Graphical approach allows users to quickly visualize design solutions * Lists the rules-of-thumb for each detail; and correct and incorrect examples of how to design or construct each detail
#287673 in eBooks 2012-11-01 2012-11-01File Name: B009PS2L5K
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Frank StephensLooks new very happy0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Very nice biographical bookBy MauricioFull of information. pictures and sketches. A must have! If you are interested in MvderR life and work. You wont be dissapointed.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A superbly researched update of a "Must Have" predecessor!By John M NovackInterning and practicing in Chicago at CF Murphys in the 1960s. early 1970s was as du Boise described Chicago architectures then-focus - all Mies.A delicious time to be in Chicago. Franz Schultze and Edward Windhorst captures this energetic informing of we. the great unwashed. accurately memorializing not only the serious theory/building coming from Miess office. but from his students including Brownson. Summers. Goldsmith and (importantly) from the students students. such as the prolific and talented Helmut Jahn.As within this book. Miess European past was there always. illuminating this energy. underlying its very foundations. literally and phenomenally.Great. great book!
