Light, wind, and structure : the mystery of the master builders / Robert Mark.

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Mark, Robert.

Title & Author:

Light, wind, and structure : the mystery of the master builders / Robert Mark.

Publication:

Description:

xvii, 209 pages : illustrations, 1 map, 1 portrait ; 28 cm.

Series:

New liberal arts series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-200) and index.
Problems of technological interpretation in historic architecture -- The technology of light, wind, and structure -- Reinterpreting ancient Roman structure -- Structural experimentation in High Gothic Architecture -- Christopher Wren, Seventeenth-Century science, and great Renaissance Domes -- The technological legacy of historic architecture.
Also issued online.

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Table of contents

ISBN:

026213246X
9780262132466
0070404038
9780070404038

Subject:

Architecture Composition, proportion, etc.
Structural engineering.
Technological innovations.
Architecture Composition, proportions, etc.
Technique de la construction.
Innovations.
structural engineering.
Architektur
Bautechnik
Technik
Gotik
Overspanningen (techniek)
Licht.
Wind.
Technische vernieuwing.
Architecture History

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New liberal arts series.

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Location: Library main 48519
Call No.: ID:89-B7570
Status: Available

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