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Since the time of ancient Rome, architects, engineers, and builders have struggled with the problem of building domed ceilings over large spaces. No one was more skilled at this than the Rafael Guastavino family, a father and son team of Spanish immigrants who oversaw the construction of thousands of spectacular thin-tile vaults across the United States between the 1880s(...)
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Since the time of ancient Rome, architects, engineers, and builders have struggled with the problem of building domed ceilings over large spaces. No one was more skilled at this than the Rafael Guastavino family, a father and son team of Spanish immigrants who oversaw the construction of thousands of spectacular thin-tile vaults across the United States between the 1880s(...)
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Guastavino Vaulting: The art of structural tile
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Since the time of ancient Rome, architects, engineers, and builders have struggled with the problem of building domed ceilings over large spaces. No one was more skilled at this than the Rafael Guastavino family, a father and son team of Spanish immigrants who oversaw the construction of thousands of spectacular thin-tile vaults across the United States between the 1880s and the 1950s. These versatile, strong, and fireproof vaults were built by Guastavino in more than two hundred major buildings in Manhattan, and in hundreds more across the country, including Grand Central Terminal, Carnegie Hall, and many major university buildings. Because the Guastavinos served only as contractors on these projects, their firm's accomplishments have remained relatively unknown to the public. Guastavino Vaulting traces the development of the remarkable construction technology from its Mediterranean roots to its highest achievements in the United States. This long overdue first monograph features archival images, drawings, and beautiful new color photography showcasing the most incredible Guastavino vaulted spaces.
Guastavino Vaulting: The art of structural tile
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Since the time of ancient Rome, architects, engineers, and builders have struggled with the problem of building domed ceilings over large spaces. No one was more skilled at this than the Rafael Guastavino family, a father and son team of Spanish immigrants who oversaw the construction of thousands of spectacular thin-tile vaults across the United States between the 1880s and the 1950s. These versatile, strong, and fireproof vaults were built by Guastavino in more than two hundred major buildings in Manhattan, and in hundreds more across the country, including Grand Central Terminal, Carnegie Hall, and many major university buildings. Because the Guastavinos served only as contractors on these projects, their firm's accomplishments have remained relatively unknown to the public. Guastavino Vaulting traces the development of the remarkable construction technology from its Mediterranean roots to its highest achievements in the United States. This long overdue first monograph features archival images, drawings, and beautiful new color photography showcasing the most incredible Guastavino vaulted spaces.
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October 2010
October 2010
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Naked architecture
Naked architecture
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An account of one of the most interesting phenomena of contemporary architecture: the return to the structure. Over the last ten years architecture would seem to have rediscovered engineering. Now that the post modern period has passed—in which the structure of buildings was camouflaged by coverings of every kind—architecture today seems to have undressed, almost as(...)
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An account of one of the most interesting phenomena of contemporary architecture: the return to the structure. Over the last ten years architecture would seem to have rediscovered engineering. Now that the post modern period has passed—in which the structure of buildings was camouflaged by coverings of every kind—architecture today seems to have undressed, almost as(...)
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Naked architecture
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An account of one of the most interesting phenomena of contemporary architecture: the return to the structure. Over the last ten years architecture would seem to have rediscovered engineering. Now that the post modern period has passed—in which the structure of buildings was camouflaged by coverings of every kind—architecture today seems to have undressed, almost as though wishing to show how it is made. The rediscovery in recent years of plastic form has brought about a closer relationship between architects and engineers. To this we must add the rise of new issues, such as that of environmental engineering, which has changed from being solely a technical and aesthetic practice into a movement in environmentally conscious architecture. If there is a phenomenon today that is able to hold together the various expressions of contemporary architecture, it is this return to the structure and the methods with which it is realized. Through its six thematic categories, this book provides an account of one of the most interesting phenomena of contemporary construction—the laying bare of architecture.
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An account of one of the most interesting phenomena of contemporary architecture: the return to the structure. Over the last ten years architecture would seem to have rediscovered engineering. Now that the post modern period has passed—in which the structure of buildings was camouflaged by coverings of every kind—architecture today seems to have undressed, almost as though wishing to show how it is made. The rediscovery in recent years of plastic form has brought about a closer relationship between architects and engineers. To this we must add the rise of new issues, such as that of environmental engineering, which has changed from being solely a technical and aesthetic practice into a movement in environmentally conscious architecture. If there is a phenomenon today that is able to hold together the various expressions of contemporary architecture, it is this return to the structure and the methods with which it is realized. Through its six thematic categories, this book provides an account of one of the most interesting phenomena of contemporary construction—the laying bare of architecture.
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November 2012
November 2012
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Engineering Structures
Engineering Structures
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Façades légères en détail
Façades légères en détail
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Cet ouvrage dresse un panorama complet des multiples composants et de la mise en œuvre des façades légères. Il étudie leurs performances, ainsi que leur entretien et leur maintenance, afin d’éviter usure et vieillissement prématuré.
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Cet ouvrage dresse un panorama complet des multiples composants et de la mise en œuvre des façades légères. Il étudie leurs performances, ainsi que leur entretien et leur maintenance, afin d’éviter usure et vieillissement prématuré.
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Façades légères en détail
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Cet ouvrage dresse un panorama complet des multiples composants et de la mise en œuvre des façades légères. Il étudie leurs performances, ainsi que leur entretien et leur maintenance, afin d’éviter usure et vieillissement prématuré.
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Cet ouvrage dresse un panorama complet des multiples composants et de la mise en œuvre des façades légères. Il étudie leurs performances, ainsi que leur entretien et leur maintenance, afin d’éviter usure et vieillissement prématuré.
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March 2013
March 2013
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Engineering Structures
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This book provides an overview of current trends in pedestrian bridge construction.
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This book provides an overview of current trends in pedestrian bridge construction.
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Pedestrian bridges : ramps, walkways, structures
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This book provides an overview of current trends in pedestrian bridge construction.
Pedestrian bridges : ramps, walkways, structures
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This book provides an overview of current trends in pedestrian bridge construction.
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March 2013
March 2013
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Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Renaissance, classiques envolées ou délires baroques des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, grandioses escaliers d'apparat du XIXe siècle, fastes de l'Art nouveau, sensualité du Modernisme catalan, froids escaliers du Bauhaus, escaliers high-tech, créations oniriques urbaines contemporaines, art conceptuel..., les escaliers demeurent l'un des signes(...)
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Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Renaissance, classiques envolées ou délires baroques des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, grandioses escaliers d'apparat du XIXe siècle, fastes de l'Art nouveau, sensualité du Modernisme catalan, froids escaliers du Bauhaus, escaliers high-tech, créations oniriques urbaines contemporaines, art conceptuel..., les escaliers demeurent l'un des signes(...)
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L'escalier, un parcours dénivelé
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Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Renaissance, classiques envolées ou délires baroques des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, grandioses escaliers d'apparat du XIXe siècle, fastes de l'Art nouveau, sensualité du Modernisme catalan, froids escaliers du Bauhaus, escaliers high-tech, créations oniriques urbaines contemporaines, art conceptuel..., les escaliers demeurent l'un des signes emblématiques de l'innovation technologique et artistique des temps nouveaux.
L'escalier, un parcours dénivelé
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Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Renaissance, classiques envolées ou délires baroques des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, grandioses escaliers d'apparat du XIXe siècle, fastes de l'Art nouveau, sensualité du Modernisme catalan, froids escaliers du Bauhaus, escaliers high-tech, créations oniriques urbaines contemporaines, art conceptuel..., les escaliers demeurent l'un des signes emblématiques de l'innovation technologique et artistique des temps nouveaux.
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April 2013
April 2013
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Diagrids owe their ensuing popularity not only to their stunning aesthetic value, but also to their very tangible benefits: a massive saving of material, a significant gain in open, usable floor area, and increased flexibility. The book looks at contemporary diagrid buildings such as Capital Gate (Abu Dhabi), Guangzhou IFC (China), Bow Encana (Calgary), CCTV (China) and(...)
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Diagrids owe their ensuing popularity not only to their stunning aesthetic value, but also to their very tangible benefits: a massive saving of material, a significant gain in open, usable floor area, and increased flexibility. The book looks at contemporary diagrid buildings such as Capital Gate (Abu Dhabi), Guangzhou IFC (China), Bow Encana (Calgary), CCTV (China) and(...)
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Diagrid structures: systems, connection, details
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Diagrids owe their ensuing popularity not only to their stunning aesthetic value, but also to their very tangible benefits: a massive saving of material, a significant gain in open, usable floor area, and increased flexibility. The book looks at contemporary diagrid buildings such as Capital Gate (Abu Dhabi), Guangzhou IFC (China), Bow Encana (Calgary), CCTV (China) and the Doha Tower (Qatar) to establish an understanding of the methodology of the design of this innovative type.
Diagrid structures: systems, connection, details
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Diagrids owe their ensuing popularity not only to their stunning aesthetic value, but also to their very tangible benefits: a massive saving of material, a significant gain in open, usable floor area, and increased flexibility. The book looks at contemporary diagrid buildings such as Capital Gate (Abu Dhabi), Guangzhou IFC (China), Bow Encana (Calgary), CCTV (China) and the Doha Tower (Qatar) to establish an understanding of the methodology of the design of this innovative type.
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June 2014
June 2014
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The Marburg Building System has been one of the earliest, and is probably one of the internationally best known German building systems. Originally developed by Helmut Spieker for a diploma thesis on university construction at the University of Kiel, and modified for the expansion of the University of Karlsruhe, the construction system was for the first time fully(...)
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The Marburg Building System has been one of the earliest, and is probably one of the internationally best known German building systems. Originally developed by Helmut Spieker for a diploma thesis on university construction at the University of Kiel, and modified for the expansion of the University of Karlsruhe, the construction system was for the first time fully(...)
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The Marburg building system: open as a matter of principle
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The Marburg Building System has been one of the earliest, and is probably one of the internationally best known German building systems. Originally developed by Helmut Spieker for a diploma thesis on university construction at the University of Kiel, and modified for the expansion of the University of Karlsruhe, the construction system was for the first time fully realized in 1961/1962 on the Marburg Lahn Hills. It marks the beginning of a construction boom doubling the building stock of German universities.This publication aims at bringing the building system back to the attention of experts and fans of good architecture. The topic is all the more up-to-date as the University of Marburg was recently declared a building of historic interest and thus protected by built heritage conservation.
The Marburg building system: open as a matter of principle
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The Marburg Building System has been one of the earliest, and is probably one of the internationally best known German building systems. Originally developed by Helmut Spieker for a diploma thesis on university construction at the University of Kiel, and modified for the expansion of the University of Karlsruhe, the construction system was for the first time fully realized in 1961/1962 on the Marburg Lahn Hills. It marks the beginning of a construction boom doubling the building stock of German universities.This publication aims at bringing the building system back to the attention of experts and fans of good architecture. The topic is all the more up-to-date as the University of Marburg was recently declared a building of historic interest and thus protected by built heritage conservation.
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July 2014
July 2014
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Toward the end of 1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge-linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island-was completed. Fifty years later, it remains an engineering marvel. At 13,700 feet (more than two and a half miles), it is still the longest suspension bridge in the United States and the sixth longest in the world. Gay Talese, then early in his career at(...)
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Toward the end of 1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge-linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island-was completed. Fifty years later, it remains an engineering marvel. At 13,700 feet (more than two and a half miles), it is still the longest suspension bridge in the United States and the sixth longest in the world. Gay Talese, then early in his career at(...)
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The bridge : the building of the Verrazano-Narrows bridge
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Toward the end of 1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge-linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island-was completed. Fifty years later, it remains an engineering marvel. At 13,700 feet (more than two and a half miles), it is still the longest suspension bridge in the United States and the sixth longest in the world. Gay Talese, then early in his career at the New York Times, closely followed the construction, and soon after the opening of this marvel of human ingenuity and engineering, he chronicled the human drama of its completion -from the construction workers high on the beams to the backroom dealing that displaced whole neighborhoods to make way for the bridge.
The bridge : the building of the Verrazano-Narrows bridge
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Toward the end of 1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge-linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island-was completed. Fifty years later, it remains an engineering marvel. At 13,700 feet (more than two and a half miles), it is still the longest suspension bridge in the United States and the sixth longest in the world. Gay Talese, then early in his career at the New York Times, closely followed the construction, and soon after the opening of this marvel of human ingenuity and engineering, he chronicled the human drama of its completion -from the construction workers high on the beams to the backroom dealing that displaced whole neighborhoods to make way for the bridge.
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September 2014
September 2014
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Engineering Structures
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Inside Smartgeometry can be seen as a retroactive manifesto for SG, examining and contextualising the work of the SG community : the digital spaces, prototypes and buildings designed using bespoke tools created in response to architectural ideas. From interactive crowd-sourcing tools to responsive agent-based systems to complex digitally fabricated structures, it explores(...)
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Inside Smartgeometry can be seen as a retroactive manifesto for SG, examining and contextualising the work of the SG community : the digital spaces, prototypes and buildings designed using bespoke tools created in response to architectural ideas. From interactive crowd-sourcing tools to responsive agent-based systems to complex digitally fabricated structures, it explores(...)
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March 2013
March 2013
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Inside smartgeometry : expanding the architectural possibilities of computational design
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Inside Smartgeometry can be seen as a retroactive manifesto for SG, examining and contextualising the work of the SG community : the digital spaces, prototypes and buildings designed using bespoke tools created in response to architectural ideas. From interactive crowd-sourcing tools to responsive agent-based systems to complex digitally fabricated structures, it explores more than a decade of advances that have been influential for architecture.
Inside smartgeometry : expanding the architectural possibilities of computational design
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Inside Smartgeometry can be seen as a retroactive manifesto for SG, examining and contextualising the work of the SG community : the digital spaces, prototypes and buildings designed using bespoke tools created in response to architectural ideas. From interactive crowd-sourcing tools to responsive agent-based systems to complex digitally fabricated structures, it explores more than a decade of advances that have been influential for architecture.
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March 2013
March 2013
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«Le projet hardi de M. Eiffel souleva de nombreuses protestations dans le monde des arts, rencontra de graves objections de la part du monde scientifique et suscita de vives polémiques. Malgré cela, le célèbre novateur poursuivit son œuvre avec confiance, et, aujourd’hui, la tour de 300 mètres, qui dresse sa flèche élancée sur les bords de la Seine, témoigne des succès(...)
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«Le projet hardi de M. Eiffel souleva de nombreuses protestations dans le monde des arts, rencontra de graves objections de la part du monde scientifique et suscita de vives polémiques. Malgré cela, le célèbre novateur poursuivit son œuvre avec confiance, et, aujourd’hui, la tour de 300 mètres, qui dresse sa flèche élancée sur les bords de la Seine, témoigne des succès(...)
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Les grands travaux du siècle : la tour Eiffel
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«Le projet hardi de M. Eiffel souleva de nombreuses protestations dans le monde des arts, rencontra de graves objections de la part du monde scientifique et suscita de vives polémiques. Malgré cela, le célèbre novateur poursuivit son œuvre avec confiance, et, aujourd’hui, la tour de 300 mètres, qui dresse sa flèche élancée sur les bords de la Seine, témoigne des succès éclatants de cette entreprise, qui avait été si discutée à ses débuts. Elle a été l’attraction principale de l’Exposition de 1889 et elle constitue encore un des monuments les plus remarquables de l’industrie métallurgique.» J.-B. Dumont,1891
Les grands travaux du siècle : la tour Eiffel
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«Le projet hardi de M. Eiffel souleva de nombreuses protestations dans le monde des arts, rencontra de graves objections de la part du monde scientifique et suscita de vives polémiques. Malgré cela, le célèbre novateur poursuivit son œuvre avec confiance, et, aujourd’hui, la tour de 300 mètres, qui dresse sa flèche élancée sur les bords de la Seine, témoigne des succès éclatants de cette entreprise, qui avait été si discutée à ses débuts. Elle a été l’attraction principale de l’Exposition de 1889 et elle constitue encore un des monuments les plus remarquables de l’industrie métallurgique.» J.-B. Dumont,1891
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August 2013
August 2013
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