Here, in one volume, is all the architect needs to know to participate in the entire process of designing structures.

Emphasizing graphical approach, the book enables you to quickly determine the desired form of a building or other structure and easily design it without the need for complex mathematics.

Form and Forces teaches the whole process of structural design for architects, including:

• selection of suitable materials
• finding a suitable configuration
• finding forces and size members
• designing appropriate connections
• proposing a feasible method of erection

Chapters are centered on the design of a whole structure, from conception through construction planning.

Contents

1. Designing a Series of Suspension Footbridges
2. Designing a Suspended Roof
3. Designing a Concrete Cylindrical Shell Roof
4. Master Lesson: Designing Simple Trusses
5. Designing a Building on a Vertical Site
6. Designing with Multipanel Trusses
7. Designing a Fanlike Roof
8. Designing Unreinforced Masonry
9. Master Lesson: Designing a Concrete Shell Roof for a Grandstand
10. Designing Efficient Trusses
11. Designing Restraints for Funicular Structures
12. Designing Shell and Membrane Structures
13. Structural Materials
14. Master Lesson: Designing with the Flow of Forces
15. Designing a Bay of Framing
16. Bending Action on Beams
17. Bending Resistance in Rectangular Beams
18. Bending Resistance in Beams of Any Shape
19. Designing Columns and Loadbearing Walls
20. Designing a Sitecast Concrete Building
21. Master Lesson: Designing in Precast Concrete
22. Designing an Entrance Canopy
23. Afterword: What is Quality?

Index

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