Elements of Architecture
Contributors: Alan Stones (Editor)
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Published: February 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780747600145
Subjects: General; Architecture
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.