Luís Andrade de Mattos Dias (Autor)

Dentro del emprendimiento del Plan Trienal 2005-2007 de Promoción del Uso del Acero de ILAFA, con la ayuda del CBCA (Brasil) y con el patrocinio de 7 empresas siderúrgicas se ha editado en español el libro: “Estructuras de Acero, Conceptos, Técnicas y Lenguaje”, del Arq. Luis Andrade.
El texto ha mejorado la obra editada en Brasil con más ilustraciones y con un capítulo especial sobre Sismos y el Diseño de Estructuras de Acero.
Sus otros capítulos son: Estructuras y sistemas estructurales de acero, El Acero, Perfiles, Conexiones, Proyecto y Fabricación, Losas, Cierres, Corrosión, Preparación de Superficie, Pintura, El Incendio y Las Estructuras de Acero.
Este texto en español está cubriendo un vacío dentro de la bibliografía actualizada sobre la Construcción en Acero.
Gracias al patrocinio de las siderúrgicas para el financiamiento del libro, éste podrá ser adquirido a un precio promocional de U$S 25, a lo que hay que agregar el flete al lugar de destino. Debido a que los costos de despacho por courier bajan significativamente a partir del envío de 5 libros, es recomendable que los interesados se agrupen y consoliden sus pedidos para que lleguen a un precio razonable a su destino.

Para adquirir esta publicación dirigirse a xbambach@ilafa.org

Peter Trebilcock (Author)- Mark Lawson (Author)

Product Description:
Steelwork offers the opportunity for architectural expression, as well as being structurally versatile and adaptable material. Good detailing is vital because it affects structural performance, costs, buildability and, perhaps most importantly, appearance. While the choice of the structural form is often the province of the structural engineer, architects should have a broad appreciation of the factors leading to the selection of the structure and its details. Traditionally, most detailing of connections is the responsibility of the steelwork fabricator, but for exposed steelwork, detailing is of much more interest to the architect, as it impacts on the aesthetics of the structure. In this respect it is important that designers appreciate the common fabrication and erection techniques, which may exert a strong influence on the method and approach to the detailing of modern steelwork in buildings.

Alexander Reichel (Author), Peter Ackermann (Author), Alexander Hentschel (Author), Anette Hochberg (Author)

Product Description:
Detail Practice: Building with Steel is a handbook for quick, goal-oriented reading and implementation. Case study projects exemplify common norm details using large-scale drawings. The fundamentals of planning load-bearing structures provide design and planning help. This is supplemented by explanations of common load-bearing structures using examples of residential, office, hall and industrial buildings. Issues of fire safety and building physics particularly relevant to steel construction are treated alongside the use of steel as a material for cladding facades.

About the Author:
Alexander Reichel, architect and certified engineer, Reichel Architekten, Kassel; guest chair for drafting and designing, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2004–5.
Alexander Hentschel, Ph.D. in engineering, Dr. Kreutz und Partner, engineering consulting, Nuremberg; 1998–2003 assistant chair for drafting and developing load-bearing structures, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Peter Ackermann, architect and certified engineer, Munich; co-owner of Büro Ackermann und Partner
Anette Hochberg, architect and certified engineer, Griesheim; assistant chair for drafting and residential architecture, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

Annette LeCuyer (Author)

Synopsis:
New conceptual strategies for structures, hybrid materials and constructions, computer-aided design and fabrication, and the adaptation of techniques from aeroplane design and ship building: these new technical developments are radically changing the use of metals in building. Yesterday's standards and processes are rapidly becoming out-dated, and it is high time that the most recent advances are documented in a systematic overview. Case studies examine significant buildings which illustrate ground-breaking concepts. These include Frank O. Gehry's Guggenheim Museum at Bilbao and the Experience Music project in Seattle, the Millennium Bridge by Norman Foster, Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito, the Seattle Library by Rem Koolhaas. Each project is comprehensively documented in image and text, paying particular attention to the application and processing of metal and steel. Annette LeCuyer is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Buffalo, The State University of New York.

Bill Addis (Author)

Product Description
First Comprehensive Survey of the History of BuildingConstruction and Civil Engineering; More than 800 Photographs, ArchivalDrawings, and Specially Commissioned Diagrams."The history of ideas in building engineering is a vast underexploredrange.Bill Addis has written an excellent guide and history that is bothencyclopaedic and subtle . . . [It] should be in every architect andengineer's library." -Professor Guy Nordenson, School ofArchitecture, Princeton UniversityThe Parthenon, Cathedral of Chartres, dome of St. Peter's,eighteenth-century silk mills in England, Crystal Palace, Chicagohigh-rises, Sydney Opera House, and the latest "green" skyscrapers all havethe same common threads running throughout their foundation.Design,engineering, and construction links the ancient to the modern and are theblueprint of every building.

About the Author
Bill Addis is a consulting engineer based in London. He is the author of numerous books and papers on engineering history and design and has curated several exhibitions on both the engineer's contribution to contemporary architecture and the history of structural engineering. Over the past twenty-five years, he has lectured at the universities of Cambridge, Bath, and Reading, and at University College, London. Addis studied engineering and philosophy at the University of Cambridge before training and working as a design engineer in the aerospace industry. He holds a doctorate degree in the history and philosophy of engineering design from the University of Reading.