BUILDING ENVELOPES. AN INTEGRATED APPROACH

Building Envelopes, the newest volume in our Architecture Briefs series, gives instruction for designing building envelopes that are both visually appealing and high-functioning. Author Jenny Lovell is an architect and professor with ample experience in both designing and teaching about integrated building envelopes. This book fills a hole in current architectural education, where students now typically only learn either how to design a beautiful but impractical facade or how to design a boring but functional facade. Building Envelopes is divided into three sections: discussion of the general concepts involved in designing a building envelope, exploration of specific technologies and materials that the envelope encompasses, and analysis of cutting-edge case studies from around the world. With helpful texts, original diagrams and sketches, and striking photographs, Building Envelopes provides an accessible, thorough guide to designing integrated envelopes that is useful to students and practitioners alike.