Elements of Architecture
Publisher: Spon Press
Published: December 31, 1990
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780419159407
First sentence: The window - sign of human life, wink to the passerby, eye of the building allowing one to gaze at the outside world without being seen, welcomer of the daylight and the sun's ray highlighting surfaces and objects, source of fresh air and sometimes place of exchange of words and smells... but also a break in the wall's structural continuity, and thus place of vulnerability, fragility, thermal sensitivity, leakage.