Building Type Basics For Housing

The fastest wayto straighten out the learning curve on specialized design projects"The series is welcome . . . By providing recent buildings as examples, supported with technical information and charts of design criteria, these books attempt to bridge the gap between theory and practice." -OculusBuilding Type Basics books provide architects, planners, and developers with the essentials they need to jump-start the design of a variety of specialized building types. In each volume, leading national figures in the field address the key questions that shape the early phases of a project commission. The answers to these questions provide instant information in a convenient, easy-to-follow format. The result is an excellent, hands-on reference that puts critical information at professionals' fingertips.Building Type Basics for Housing is a nuts-and-bolts guide to all the design considerations for a variety of housing-from planning and site layout to building design. Complete with descriptive illustrations, this useful resource offers essential information, guidelines, and planning concepts for building projects for single-family detached units; townhouses; multi-family; mid-rise and high-rise buildings; and housing in mixed-use buildings.Goody, Joan is the author of 'Building Type Basics For Housing', published 2004 under ISBN 9780471319306 and ISBN 0471319309.