Isbn: 9780714841465 - building: 3000 years of design, engineering and construction. ediz. illustrata (6 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Very Good. From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, 'Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction' charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated volume, aimed at students and young professionals as well as general readers, explores the materials, classic texts, instruments, and theories that have propelled modern engineering, and the famous and not-so-famous buildings designed through the ages, from the Parthenon to Chartes Cathedral and the dome of St. Peter's, from eighteenth-century silk mills in England to the Crystal Palace, and on to the first Chicago high-rises, the Sydney Opera House, and the latest 'green' skyscrapers. The book concentrates on developments since the industrial and scientific revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Incorporated within the continuous narrative are sidebars with short biographies of eminent engineers, excerpts from classic texts, stories of individual projects of major importance, and brief histories of key concepts such as calculus. Also included are extensive reference materials: appendices, a glossary, bibliography, and index. Open copy with light wear on dust jacket (which is wrapped in complimentary Brodart protector), clean pages with tight binding.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: New. First Comprehensive Survey of the History of Building Construction and Civil Engineering; More than 800 Photographs, Archival Drawings, and Specially Commissioned Diagrams. "The history of ideas in building engineering is a vast underexplored range. Bill Addis has written an excellent guide and history that is both encyclopaedic and subtle . . . [It] should be in every architect and engineer's library." -Professor Guy Nordenson, School of Architecture, Princeton University The Parthenon, Cathedral of Chartres, dome of St. Peter's, eighteenth-century silk mills in England, Crystal Palace, Chicago high-rises, Sydney Opera House, and the latest "green" skyscrapers all have the same common threads running throughout their foundation. Design, engineering, and construction links the ancient to the modern and are the blueprint of every building.…