Technics and architecture : the development of materials and systems for buildings / Cecil D. Elliott.

Main entry:

Elliott, Cecil D.

Title & Author:

Technics and architecture : the development of materials and systems for buildings / Cecil D. Elliott.

Publication:

Description:

x, 467 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-456) and index.

Summary:

This illustrated history focuses on the technics of building form in Europe and North America from the Industrial Revolution to the 1990s. It surveys the ways in which new materials, methods and systems were discovered and tested and the ways in which they succeeded or failed.

ISBN:

0262050455
9780262050456
0262550245
9780262550246

Subject:

Building History.
Building materials History.
Building material History.
Construction Histoire.
Construction Matériaux Histoire.
Building.
Building materials.
Baustoff
Haustechnik
Bouwkunst.
Bouwmaterialen.
Constructies.
Architecture.
Construction.
Histoire.
Matériau de construction.
Mécanique du bâtiment.
Buildings Construction History

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Wilcox, Jean, book designer, bookjacket designer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 72333
Call No.: ID TH18.E45; ID:92-B1161
Status: Available

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