What are the best textbooks (or comprehensive primers) which are freely available online? Ideally as web content, not as PDF.
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This website by an M. Arch candidate is a remarkable overview of the wicked problem of the second egress in the Canadian building code
secondegress.ca
It’s a near-encyclopedic intro to the topic, supported by a density of references and illuminating drawings/floor plans
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What a beautiful document!
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It really is. It’s wonderful in so many ways.
It’s likely a bit hyperbolic to say this, but there’s something abt how it reads as both impassioned jeremiad and crisp legal document… I think it’s a work of art.
I found his Author’s Note really affecting
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Yes, I really loved the Author's Note too! And what a beautiful schematic rendering of his building. Gosh…