In recent years, facades have become more important in architectural practice and in public perception. As well as functioning as a protective shell and visible 'face' and supplying heat and electricity, a building's exterior interacts directly with the surrounding public space.This revised and expanded new edition of the Facade Construction Manual offers readers technical and design planning fundamentals in a compact reference work.A section describing a comprehensive selection of built structures shows general and unique, tried and tested, and innovative approaches to facade planning - down to the last detail.

Facade Construction Manual: 2nd edition
Thomas Herzog, Roland Krippner,‎ Werner Lang
Edition Detail, 2017
ISBN: 978-3955533878