Facade Construction Manual In recent years, facades have become more important in architectural practice and in public perception.

30 years after the publication of our first construction handbook, this is the first in the series to deal with facades.
Over the centuries, architects’ design services have often concentrated on developing impressive section drawings of buildings, which frequently became objects of heated controversy over questions of style chosen as well as a medium for conveying new artistic positions.

There is now an increasing focus once more on facades due to the growing importance taken on by exterior walls in the context of energy consumption issues and options for making use of environmental energy. In addition to this focus, and usually contrasting with it, are efforts at self-promotion and “identification with the address” for those clients for whom the “packaging” of their buildings, which often have quite banal interiors, has long since become a substitute for quality architecture.
The booming Asian megacities show this quite clearly.

The sequence of this book’s chapters takes an expedient approach to designing and developing facade structures. Aspects that apply generally to the exterior walls of buildings, involving demands made on them, their principal functionality and structural design,
have been separated from descriptions of the
special features of individual cases. Facade Construction Manual.