Remember grade-school workbooks where you completed the problems and exercises right on the page? Teach Yourself to Build is a more sophisticated sort of workbook that quickly and directly involves the student or do-it-yourselfer in designing the architectural forms of simple buildings in various materials. It allows readers simultaneously to select appropriate structural systems, lay out structural plans, choose finish materials, develop construction details, and in general to perform many of the major design tasks necessary to make the building a reality.  Beginning with a simple lesson on drawing freehand to scale, Teach Yourself to Build presents some basic criteria for deciding on a structural system, outlines a simple procedure for laying out framing, gives worked examples of stair, dimensional, and board footage calculations, and teaches the rationale of concrete framing systems, steel connections, and masonry spanning devices. With the help of these instructions, the student is soon designing a steel-frame office tower, a wood-frame retail establishment, an all-brick house, a classroom building of reinforced concrete, and a large museum of fire-resistant construction.  Teach Yourself to Build contains exercises in all the major systems of construction—wood, masonry, steel, and concrete. These cover dozens of skills which are indispensible to the designer, from choosing a structural system to working with major building code provisions. Naturally, this workbook should be accompanied in its use by standard reference books on construction; however, it gives information on many topics which are not covered elsewhere in print.  Entirely handwritten and illustrated by the authors, the exercises in Teach Yourself to Build have been used and tested in classrooms and studios at MIT. The student edition of the book is perforated and punched so that pages can be removed for grading and reassembled in a standard three-ring binder, while the other edition has a regular paperback binding suitable for reference and self-instruction.

Teach Yourself to Build

Arts & Photography

Edward Allen

Gale Beth Goldberg

Architecture

The MIT Press

Teach Yourself to Build - Student Edition

Bamboo Style creatively shows how every room of the house can be designed, decorated or accented with sensual bamboo furniture, flooring, wall covering, ceiling material and accessories. The book showcases examples of easy and innovative bamboo decorating techniques and do-it-yourself projects. Bamboo Style inspires creativity and craft making, and includes a detailed resource section that makes it easy to connect with designers, manufacturers, artists, suppliers, and organizations. 
HARDCOVER PUBLISHED JULY 2002, HC ISBN: 1-58685-092-X 
Gale Beth Goldberg received her masters degree in architecture from MIT and her undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The recipient of a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts, she studied the bamboo architecture of Simon Velez and builder/artisan Marcelo Villegas in Bogotá, Columbia, in 1998. She lives in Santa Barbara, California.

Bamboo Style

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Crafts & Hobbies

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