* Provides instant access to more than 1100 architectural equations
* No math menus and shortcuts allow any building element to be sized quickly and accurately

Written by an architect of fifty years' experience who has authored six previously acclaimed books on architecture, Architecture Laid Bare steers you past all the promotional hype that confuses so much architectural thinking today, strips away the skin of current styles and questionable construction techniques, and gets to the very bones of what architecture is about: those unchangeable anatomical elements that make a building function -to give you a fundamental, practical, everyday knowledge of these shells that enclose us nearly waking and sleeping hour of our lives. When it comes to...