Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering and Construction

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		Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering and Construction
		Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering and Construction

基本信息·出版社：Phaidon Press
·页码：608 页
·出版日期：2007年03月
·ISBN：0714841463
·条形码：9780714841465
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：建筑物: 3, 000年的设计, 工程学和建造

内容简介 First Comprehensive Survey of the History of BuildingConstruction and Civil Engineering; More than 800 Photographs, ArchivalDrawings, and Specially Commissioned Diagrams."The history of ideas in building engineering is a vast underexploredrange.Bill Addis has written an excellent guide and history that is bothencyclopaedic and subtle . . . [It] should be in every architect andengineer's library." -Professor Guy Nordenson, School ofArchitecture, Princeton UniversityThe Parthenon, Cathedral of Chartres, dome of St. Peter's,eighteenth-century silk mills in England, Crystal Palace, Chicagohigh-rises, Sydney Opera House, and the latest "green" skyscrapers all havethe same common threads running throughout their foundation.Design,engineering, and construction links the ancient to the modern and are theblueprint of every building.
作者简介 Bill Addis is a consulting engineer based in London. He is the author of numerous books and papers on engineering history and design and has curated several exhibitions on both the engineer's contribution to contemporary architecture and the history of structural engineering. Over the past twenty-five years, he has lectured at the universities of Cambridge, Bath, and Reading, and at University College, London. Addis studied engineering and philosophy at the University of Cambridge before training and working as a design engineer in the aerospace industry. He holds a doctorate degree in the history and philosophy of engineering design from the University of Reading.
媒体推荐 Wallpaper*, May 2007
'...a labour of love. ... chronicles everything from geometric pattern in mediaeval cathedrals to the most daring uses of reinforced concrete'

Alex Wright, architect, Architects' Journal, 29 April 2007
`...this is a truly heavyweight publication which every student of engineering and architecture should have highlighted on their first-year reading list.'

Building Design, March 2007

`The strength of this ambitious publication is its linking of technical development to the social and cultural context.'

Financial Times, 7 April 2007
`...more than 800 photographs, plans and drawings bring to life some of architecture's greatest achievements.'

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