Reciprocal frame architecture / Olga Popovic Larsen.

Main entry:

Larsen, Olga Popovic.

Title & Author:

Reciprocal frame architecture / Olga Popovic Larsen.

Publication:

Description:

x, 196 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191) and index.
Background -- the reciprocal frame historically -- Morphology -- Geometry -- Structural behaviour -- Japan -- a home of RF structures -- The reciprocal frame architecture of Kazuhiro Ishii -- Torikabuto -- the Life Science Laboratory designed by Yoichi Kan -- The Stonemason Museum by Yasufumi Kijima -- The reciprocal frame as a spiritual structure -- the work of Graham Brown -- Built examples.

Summary:

In structural terms reciprocal frame structures are 'three dimensional assemblies of mutually supporting beams'. But This book explores the principles of these apparently simple structures and demonstrates how they can be used in the context of a modern building.

ISBN:

9780750682633 (paperback)
0750682639 (paperback)

Subject:

Framing (Building)
Architecture.
Structural engineering.
Technique de la construction.
architecture (discipline)
structural engineering.
Bouwconstructies.
Houtconstructies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 262798
Call No.: BIB 193928
Status: Available

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