Architectural Design and Regulation

by Rob Imrie and Emma Street

From the earliest periods of architecture and building, architects' actions have been conditioned by rules, regulations, standards, and governance practices. These range from socio-cultural and religious codes seeking to influence the formal structure of settlement patterns, to prescriptive building regulations specifying detailed elements of design in relation to the safety of building structures. In Architectural Design and Regulation the authors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140517966X
• ISBN13: 9781405179669
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.7"