Architect's Pocket Book (Routledge Pocket Books) - Softcover

Hetreed, Jonathan; Ross, Ann; Baden-Powell, Charlotte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138643998 ISBN 13: 9781138643994

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

This handy pocket book brings together a wealth of useful information that architects need on a daily basis – on-site or in the studio. It provides clear guidance and invaluable detail on a wide range of issues, from planning policy through environmental design to complying with Building Regulations, from structural and services matters to materials characteristics and detailing. This fifth edition includes the updating of regulations, standards and sources across a wide range of topics.

Compact and easy to use, the Architect’s Pocket Book has sold well over 90,000 copies to the nation’s architects, architecture students, designers and construction professionals who do not have an architectural background but need to understand the basics, fast.

This is the famous little blue book that you can’t afford to be without.

About this title

From the Publisher:

The book includes data about planning, structure, services, building elements, materials and addresses, and is intended to be used both at the drawing board and on site.The selection of the material by the author is based on many years' experience of architectural practice in both public and private offices.Charlotte Baden-Powell was trained at the Architectural Association in London and has practised as an architect for 38 years. She began by working for British Rail and later for Sir Denys Lasdun. Since then she has run her own practice in London and Bath, dealing with new works as well as the restoration and extension of old buildings. She has written and lectured about the design of kitchens and bathrooms and is the author of Fireplace Design and Construction.

About the Author:

Jonathan Hetreed and Ann Ross have drawn from decades of experience of running their own architects’ practice in Bath to update and extend the scope of this latest edition of Charlotte Baden-Powell’s APB, reflecting continuing changes in design, construction and practice, incorporating new contributions from consultants and suppliers while retaining the compact scale and lively detail of the original.

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Charlotte Baden-Powell was trained at the Architectural Association in London. She practised architecture for over 40 years, during which time she identified the need for this book, first published in 1997 and still incisively relevant today.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1138643998
• ISBN 13: 9781138643994
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 412