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Elliott, Cecil D.

 
9780262550246: Technics and Architecture: The Development of Materials and Systems for Buildings

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This illustrated history focuses on a neglected aspect of architecture, the technics of building form. Concentrating on developments in Europe and North America from the Industrial Revolution to the present, the author surveys the ways in which new materials, methods, and systems were discovered and tested, and the ways in which they succeeded or failed. Elliott tells the story in two parts, first covering materials - such as wood, masonry, terracotta, iron and steel, glass, cement, and reinforced concrete - and then systems - including lighting protection, sanitation, lighting, heating, air conditioning, elevators and escalators, fire protection, structural engineering and acoustics.

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9780262050456: Technics and Architecture: The Development of Materials and Systems for Building

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ISBN 10:  0262050455 ISBN 13:  9780262050456
Casa editrice: MIT Press, 1992
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