"Manual is no typical architectural monograph. Manual is a guidebook to how the Philadelphia practice KieranTimberlake builds their buildings. It opens the firm's files of details of twenty-nine projects ranging from houses to schools. The architects' process of crafting reveals everything from handrails to pressure-equalized cavity walls." "Anyone who has ever looked at a building and wondered "how did they do that?" will gain insight from Manual. The work of KieranTimberlake makes no distinction between technology and composition. By disclosing their design strategies - from framing, joining, and hinging to scaling, lining, and weaving - and illustrating them with photographs and detailed working drawings, KieranTimberlake provides a level of understanding of their own work, and architectural design in general, not otherwise possible." A must for practitioners and students alike, Manual brings the process of design and details of architecture to life, revealing the beauty of building derived from composition within a tradition of innovative assembly.
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