Here, in one volume, is all the architect needs to know to participate in the entire process of designing structures.  Emphasizing best-selling author Edward Allen's graphical approach, the reader can quickly determine the desired form of a building or other structure, and easily design it without the need for complex mathematics.  This is the only existing text that teaches the whole process of structural design for architects, including selection of suitable materials, finding a suitable configuration, finding forces and size members, designing appropriate connections, and proposing a feasible method of erection. Using a ground-breaking project-based approach, chapters are centered on the design of an entire structure, from first ideas through construction planning. Each project is carefully chosen  to bring out the fundamental issues that are then learned in the context of the design project.   In addition to the standard mathematics, the reader is taught to use the simple, powerful, graphical tools employed by all the great structural engineers of hte past 150 years to evolve the graceful forms of their structures.