Building Codes for Existing and Historic Buildings by Melvyn GreenWritten for architects, engineers, and preservation professionals, this is the only comprehensive book to examine how the International Building Code and the International Existing Building Code (IEBC) can be applied to historic buildings. For ease of use, the book is organized to parallel the IEBC itself. It discusses code history and the reasoning behind specific regulations, and how codes are applied to existing buildings, along with issues such as occupancy and use, type of construction, safety, and energy conservation. No building professional should be without this handy guide.
Chapter 12 is intended to provide means for the preservation of historic buildings. Historic buildings shall comply with the provisions of this chapter relating to their repair, alteration, relocation and change of occupancy.
American building : the environmental forces that shape it by James Marston FitchIn this superb volume, James Marston Fitch provides a fundamental theory of buildings. "The ultimate task of architecture," he writes, "is to act in favor of human beings: to interpose itself between people and the natural environment in which they find themselves, in such a way as to remove the gross environmental load from their shoulders." Fitch systematically examines the various aspects of the environment which buildings control for human habitation--air, temperature, light, and sound, even space, time, and gravity.
Call Number: NA2543.S6 F54 1999
ISBN: 0195110404
American building : the environmental forces that shape it by James Marston FitchIn this superb volume, James Marston Fitch provides a fundamental theory of buildings. "The ultimate task of architecture," he writes, "is to act in favor of human beings: to interpose itself between people and the natural environment in which they find themselves, in such a way as to remove the gross environmental load from their shoulders." Fitch systematically examines the various aspects of the environment which buildings control for human habitation--air, temperature, light, and sound, even space, time, and gravity.
A Field Guide to American Houses by Virginia Savage McAlester"For the house lover and the curious tourist, for the house buyer and the weekend stroller, for neighborhood preservation groups and for all who want to know more about their community -- here, at last, is a book that makes it both easy and pleasurable to identify the various styles and periods of American domestic architecture.