The Architect's Studio Companion: Rules of Thumb for Preliminary Design (Hardcover)

The latest edition of the guidebook every architect needs at their fingertips, updated and expanded throughout

Start your designs on solid ground with The Architect's Studio Companion! This comprehensive handbook provides everything you need for the preliminary selecting, configuring, and sizing of the structural, environmental, safety, accessibility, and parking systems of a building. Edward Allen and Joseph Iano, authors of the market-leading Fundamentals of Building Construction, use their trademark talent for boiling down complex technical requirements into easy-to-use, time-saving guidelines for the engineering and architectural design of buildings.

The new seventh edition is fully updated with the latest model building codes, new information on heating and cooling systems for buildings, new structural systems, new requirements for tall mass timber buildings, and more. Throughout the text, straightforward diagrams and user-friendly explanations help you lay out the most important systems of a building in a matter of minutes without stressing about complicated technical concepts. Use this guide to introduce building systems into the early stages of design, and greatly reduce the need for later revisions or redesign--and keep your projects on time and on budget.

Streamline your design process today with The Architect's Studio Companion:

• Explore alternative structural systems quickly and efficiently
• Compare the carbon impacts of alternative system choices... at a glance
• Stay current with the latest information about tall mass timber buildings
• Access information on high-performance heating and cooling systems, passive design, natural daylighting, and other sustainable design strategies with ease
• Incorporate U.S. and Canadian building code requirements and accessibility regulations into your designs

More than just a reference, The Architect's Studio Companion, Seventh Edition is a must-have companion that no practicing architect or student should be without.

每位建築師都需要的最新版指南，全面更新和擴充

以建築師的工作室伴侶為基礎，為建築物的結構、環境、安全、無障礙和停車系統的初步選擇、配置和尺寸提供一切所需。Edward Allen和Joseph Iano是市場領先的建築構造基礎的作者，他們以將複雜的技術要求簡化為易於使用、節省時間的指南，幫助工程和建築設計師設計建築物。

新的第七版完全更新了最新的建築法規、建築物的供暖和冷卻系統的新信息、新的結構系統、高大木質建築的新要求等。在整個文本中，直觀的圖表和用戶友好的解釋幫助您在幾分鐘內布置建築物的最重要系統，而不必擔心複雜的技術概念。使用本指南將建築系統引入設計的早期階段，大大減少後期修訂或重新設計的需求，使您的項目按時按預算進行。

立即使用建築師的工作室伴侶簡化您的設計流程：

- 快速高效地探索替代結構系統
- 一目了然地比較不同系統選擇的碳足跡
- 獲取有關高大木質建築的最新信息
- 輕鬆獲取有關高性能供暖和冷卻系統、被動設計、自然採光和其他可持續設計策略的信息
- 將美國和加拿大的建築法規要求和無障礙規定納入您的設計中

建築師的工作室伴侶，第七版不僅僅是一本參考書，而是每位實踐建築師或學生都不能缺少的必備伴侶。

Joseph Iano is an author, illustrator, and practicing architect who has taught design and technology in schools of architecture throughout the United States. He has collaborated on numerous publications over a span of more than 30 years. Currently, he runs a Seattle firm that provides technical, quality management, and communications consulting to the design and construction industry.

Edward Allen, FAIA (1938 2020) taught more than 35 years as a faculty member of Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other North American schools of Architecture and Design. Over the course of a professional career spanning five decades, he influenced a generation of architectural educators, designed more than 50 constructed buildings, and was the best-selling coauthor of Fundamentals of Building Construction, Form and Forces, Architectural Detailing, Fundamentals of Residential Construction, and many other architectural works in print.

Joseph Iano是一位作家、插畫家和實踐建築師，他在美國的建築學院教授設計和技術。他在過去30多年中合作出版了許多作品。目前，他在西雅圖經營一家公司，為設計和建築行業提供技術、質量管理和溝通諮詢服務。

Edward Allen, FAIA（1938-2020）在耶魯大學、麻省理工學院和其他北美建築和設計學院擔任教職超過35年。在他五十年的職業生涯中，他影響了一代建築教育工作者，設計了50多座建築，並成為暢銷書籍《建築構造基礎、形式與力量、建築細節、住宅建築基礎》等許多建築作品的合著者。