TY - BOOK AU - Allen, Edward AU - Zalewski, Wacław TI - Form and forces: Designing efficient, expressive structures SN - 9780470174654 U1 - 624.1771 ALL PY - 2010/// CY - Hoboken PB - John Wiley KW - Architecture - Massachusetts - Boston KW - Form (Aesthetics) KW - Structural design KW - Structural dynamics N1 -

Includes index.

N2 - In Form and Forces, bestselling authors Edward Allen and Waclaw Zalewski offer a fresh, new approach to the study of structures for students and practitioners of architecture and structural engineering. Emphasizing graphics rather than mathematics and rote learning, Form and Forces teaches statics and strength of materials in the context of a set of projects that involve students in the entire process of designing elegant, long-span structures, from concept generation to detailing and planning for construction ER -