Building : 3000 years of design engineering and construction / Bill Addis.
Material type: TextAnalytics: Show analyticsPublisher: London ; New York : Phaidon Press, 2007Description: 640 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0714841463
- 9780714841465
- 3000 years of design engineering and construction
- Three thousand years of design engineering and construction
- 624.17 22
- TH15 .A33 2007
- TA633 .A328 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 622-626) and index.
Introduction -- Building and engineering in ancient times : 1000 B.C.-A.D. 500 -- The medieval era : 500-1400 -- The Renaissance : 1400-1630 -- Global trading and the age of reason and enlightenment : 1630-1750 -- Engineering becomes a profession : 1750-1800 -- The harmony of theory and practice : 1800-1860 -- The birth of the modern building : 1860-1920 -- Architectural engineering : 1920-1960 -- The computer age and the greening of construction : 1960-present -- Afterword -- Glossary -- Appendix 1: "Aims and means" / by Ove Arup -- Appendix 2: Iron and its alloys -- Appendix 3: Concrete and reinforced concrete.
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