Essential information for the design of banks and financial
institutions
Building Type Basics for Banks and Financial Institutions is
your one-stop reference for the essential information you need to
confidently begin the design process and successfully complete the
design for a bank or financial institution, large or small, on time
and within budget. A renowned architect in the field shares his
firsthand knowledge in order to guide architects, planners,
engineers, and their clients through all aspects of the design of
banking facilities.
This comprehensive guide features a number of recently
constructed and renovated banks from small neighborhood
branches to large headquarters. It highlights design issues as well
as planning and zoning, office space versus customer space, and
overall security.
Building Type Basics for Banks and Financial Institutions begins
with a basic overview of the history of banking and financial
institutions, then explores the classic designs of the past along
with the important considerations involved in building modern
banks, including drive-up lanes, ATM facilities, and high-tech
teller stations.
This quick reference:
Addresses key questions that arise when launching a banking
facility design project
Offers insight from an architect with more than forty years of
experience in the design of more than one hundred banks
Provides the best contemporary examples complete with
photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details
Not only does this book offer current, authoritative
information, its comprehensive coverage and logical organization
also save you countless hours of research.
Building Type Basics books provide architects with the
essentials needed to jump-start specialized facilities design. Each
volume features leading experts in the field who address the issues
that shape the early phases of a project in a convenient,
easy-to-use format.
HOMER L. WILLIAMS, D.ARCH, FAIA, is principal of Williams
Spurgeon Kuhl & Freshnock Architects (WSKF) in North Kansas
City, Missouri. He has more than four decades of experience in the
design of more than one hundred bank and financial service
projects. He is a past president of the National Council of
Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), and received his
doctorate in architecture at the University of Hawaii.
Author Biography
Homer L. Williams, FAIA, is principal and chairman of Williams Spurgeon Kuhl & Freshnock Architects (WSKF)?in North Kansas City, Missouri. He has more than four decades of experience in the design of more than 100?bank and financial service?projects. He is a past president of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), and is currently a PhD candidate in architecture at the University of Hawaii.