Main entry:

Sandaker, Bjørn Normann, 1954-

Title & Author:

The structural basis of architecture / Bjørn Normann Sandaker and Arne Petter Eggen ; translation by Steven Kirwin.

Publication:

New York : Whitney Library of Design, 1992.

Description:

224 pages : 400 illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 223) and index.
Ch. 1. About Building Structures -- 1.1. Structural Dualism -- 1.2. Structural Loads -- 1.3. Materials and Forces -- 1.4. Structural Size -- Ch. 2. Statics: The Basis for Understanding Structures -- 2.1. Statics and Architecture -- 2.2. Newton's Laws: The Meaning of Force -- 2.3. Composition of Intersecting Forces -- 2.4. Examples Using Newton's Laws -- 2.5. Resolution of Forces -- 2.6. Static Equilibrium of Intersecting Forces -- 2.7. Static Equilibrium of Parallel Forces: The Lever Principle -- 2.8. Moments of Forces -- 2.9. Statically Determinate and Indeterminate Structure -- 2.10. Distribution of Force as a Means of Architectural Expression -- Ch. 3. Trusses: A System of Members -- 3.1. Examples from History -- 3.2. Roof Trusses from East and West -- 3.3. Force, Stress, and Elasticity -- 3.4. System of Members -- 3.5. Pompidou Center -- 3.6. Piano and Rogers -- ^ 3.7. Force Follows Form -- 3.8. Turning Point in Building -- Ch. 4. Beam -- 4.1. Prehistoric Beam -- 4.2. Trouble with Beams -- 4.3. Moment and Shear Diagrams -- 4.4. Utzon's Moment Beams -- 4.5. Forces and Form -- 4.6. Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water -- 4.7. Continuous Beams and Gerber Beams -- 4.8. Grid of Beams and Slabs -- Ch. 5. Column -- 5.1. On the Threshold of the Acropolis -- 5.2. Capital -- 5.3. Way the Column Works -- 5.4. Short Column -- 5.5. Slender Column and Buckling -- 5.6. Leonard Euler's Discovery -- 5.7. Form of the Column -- 5.8. Entasis in a Broader Perspective -- Ch. 6. Frame: Cooperation Between the Column and the Beam -- 6.1. Function of the Frame as Structural Form -- 6.2. Finnish Form -- 6.3. Forces in Frames -- 6.4. Beam vs. Column -- 6.5. British Wood -- 6.6. Crown Hall -- Ch. 7. Arch -- 7.1. Arch as Historic Indicator -- 7.2. Character of the Arch and the Vault -- 7.3. Why Is the Arch the Way It Is?
7.4. Structural Function as a Criterion of Form -- 7.5. Force Reactions in Statically Determinate Three-Hinged Arches -- 7.6. Foundations of the Arch -- 7.7. Bending Moments in Arches -- 7.8. Vault and Light -- Ch. 8. Cable and the Membrane -- 8.1. Suspended Structures and Soft Shells -- 8.2. Statics of Cables -- 8.3. Saarinen: Tension and Thrust -- 8.4. Networks of Cables and Fabric -- 8.5. Cable Structures in Paris and Tokyo -- Ch. 9. Structural Details -- 9.1. Detail -- 9.2. Glass Pyramid -- 9.3. Peacock Chair -- 9.4. Norwegian Concrete -- 9.5. Mies van der Rohe's Details -- 9.6. Crossbracing -- 9.7. Santiago Calatrava -- 9.8. Midtstubakken Ski Jump.

Summary:

Aimed specifically at architects, this book analyzes various structural principles and illustrates their use in some of the world's best-known buildings, including work by Alvar Aalto, Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0823049361
9780823049363
0714828726 (PHAIDON)
9780714828725 (PHAIDON)
0714832650 (PHAIDON1995PBK)
9780714832654 (PHAIDON1995PBK)

Subject:

Architectural design.
Structural design.
Design architectural.
Constructions Calcul.
Architektur
Bildband
Struktur

Added entries:

Eggen, Arne Petter.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 92403
Call No.: ID:93-B65
Status: Available