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Cargando... Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture (1980)por Mario Salvadori
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is my second read, the first more than a decade ago. The theoretical chapters near the beginning (loads, materials, beams) are better than the chapters that get caught up in 'explaining architecture.' It's a good explainer book for structure, I'm not sure it's a good critique/history book, but both subjects get equal time. This had a lot of great information for someone like me; an interested layperson with no professional design training. The style is a classic sort of stuffy academic prose, and in places goes on at length about how much of a genius someone was (the paragraph-plus extolling the mind of Gustave Eiffel being a good example), but its certainly informative and engaging if I put that aside. I did feel like a lot of what was here was similar to Edward Allen's (no relation!) book, How Buildings Work: The Strength of Architecture, which I read recently. Allen was rather broader in range of topics, and Salvadori more in depth in examining structural design theory and specific historical and modern buildings. It was worth a read, for sure. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
An introduction to building methods from ancient times to the present day. In the afterword (to the 1990 pbk. ed.), the author discusses recent advances in science and technology that have had important effects on the planning and construction of buildings: improved materials (steel, concrete, plastics), progress in antiseismic designs, and changes in both architectural and structural design made possible by the computer. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The book goes into quite a bit of technical detail, and although it makes for difficult reading, it definitely provides answers to questions you have about, for example, how pyramids and cathedrals could have been constructed without modern equipment, and how bridges could have been erected in water. ( )