232 Results
Form:
books
books
Price:
$31.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Dam, a new addition to Reaktion’s Objekt series, traces the development of dams from the Industrial Revolution to the present day through a number of themes – both successes and failures – including the extension of the design teams forming an alliance between engineering, architecture, landscape architecture and ecology. A profusely illustrated exploration of a(...)
$31.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Dam, a new addition to Reaktion’s Objekt series, traces the development of dams from the Industrial Revolution to the present day through a number of themes – both successes and failures – including the extension of the design teams forming an alliance between engineering, architecture, landscape architecture and ecology. A profusely illustrated exploration of a(...)
Title:
Dam
Actions:
Price:
$31.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Dam, a new addition to Reaktion’s Objekt series, traces the development of dams from the Industrial Revolution to the present day through a number of themes – both successes and failures – including the extension of the design teams forming an alliance between engineering, architecture, landscape architecture and ecology. A profusely illustrated exploration of a previously neglected subject, this book is neither a polemic against dams nor a defence of their proliferation. It offers a fresh and much-needed account of their design, construction and function, which will appeal to dam engineers, environmentalists, historians and students, as well as those who previously recognized only The Dambusters march.
Dam
Actions:
Price:
$31.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Dam, a new addition to Reaktion’s Objekt series, traces the development of dams from the Industrial Revolution to the present day through a number of themes – both successes and failures – including the extension of the design teams forming an alliance between engineering, architecture, landscape architecture and ecology. A profusely illustrated exploration of a previously neglected subject, this book is neither a polemic against dams nor a defence of their proliferation. It offers a fresh and much-needed account of their design, construction and function, which will appeal to dam engineers, environmentalists, historians and students, as well as those who previously recognized only The Dambusters march.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
June 2007, London
June 2007, London
Subject:
Engineering Structures
Engineering Structures
Form:
books
books
Price:
$44.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Why does technology change over time, how does it change, and what difference does it make? In this sweeping, ambitious look at a thousand years of Western experience, Robert Friedel argues that technological change comes largely through the pursuit of improvement--the deep-rooted belief that things could be done in a better way. What Friedel calls the "culture of(...)
$44.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Why does technology change over time, how does it change, and what difference does it make? In this sweeping, ambitious look at a thousand years of Western experience, Robert Friedel argues that technological change comes largely through the pursuit of improvement--the deep-rooted belief that things could be done in a better way. What Friedel calls the "culture of(...)
Title:
A culture of improvement : technology and the western millennium
Actions:
Price:
$44.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Why does technology change over time, how does it change, and what difference does it make? In this sweeping, ambitious look at a thousand years of Western experience, Robert Friedel argues that technological change comes largely through the pursuit of improvement--the deep-rooted belief that things could be done in a better way. What Friedel calls the "culture of improvement" is manifested every day in the ways people carry out their tasks in life--from tilling fields and raising children to waging war. Improvements can be ephemeral or lasting, and one person’s improvement may not always be viewed as such by others. Friedel stresses the social processes by which we define what improvements are and decide which improvements will last and which will not. These processes, he emphasizes, have created both winners and losers in history. Friedel presents a series of narratives of Western technology that begin in the eleventh century and stretch into the twenty-first. Familiar figures from the history of invention are joined by others--the Italian preacher who described the first eyeglasses, the dairywomen displaced from their control over cheesemaking, and the little-known engineer who first suggested a grand tower to Gustav Eiffel. Friedel traces technology from the plow and the printing press to the internal combustion engine, the transistor, and the space shuttle. Friedel also reminds us that faith in improvement can sometimes have horrific consequences: improved weaponry makes warfare ever more deadly and the drive for improving human beings can lead to eugenics and even genocide. The most comprehensive attempt to tell the story of Western technology in many years, engagingly written and lavishly illustrated, A Culture of Improvement documents the ways in which the drive for improvement has shaped our modern world.
A culture of improvement : technology and the western millennium
Actions:
Price:
$44.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Why does technology change over time, how does it change, and what difference does it make? In this sweeping, ambitious look at a thousand years of Western experience, Robert Friedel argues that technological change comes largely through the pursuit of improvement--the deep-rooted belief that things could be done in a better way. What Friedel calls the "culture of improvement" is manifested every day in the ways people carry out their tasks in life--from tilling fields and raising children to waging war. Improvements can be ephemeral or lasting, and one person’s improvement may not always be viewed as such by others. Friedel stresses the social processes by which we define what improvements are and decide which improvements will last and which will not. These processes, he emphasizes, have created both winners and losers in history. Friedel presents a series of narratives of Western technology that begin in the eleventh century and stretch into the twenty-first. Familiar figures from the history of invention are joined by others--the Italian preacher who described the first eyeglasses, the dairywomen displaced from their control over cheesemaking, and the little-known engineer who first suggested a grand tower to Gustav Eiffel. Friedel traces technology from the plow and the printing press to the internal combustion engine, the transistor, and the space shuttle. Friedel also reminds us that faith in improvement can sometimes have horrific consequences: improved weaponry makes warfare ever more deadly and the drive for improving human beings can lead to eugenics and even genocide. The most comprehensive attempt to tell the story of Western technology in many years, engagingly written and lavishly illustrated, A Culture of Improvement documents the ways in which the drive for improvement has shaped our modern world.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
May 2007, Cambridge / London
May 2007, Cambridge / London
Subject:
Engineering Structures
Engineering Structures
Form:
books
books
Title:
Construire en acier
Construire en acier
Actions:
Price:
$163.00
(available to order)
Summary:
L'avènement au XIXe siècle du matériau acier a fondamentalement contribué à l'évolution de l'architecture, en ouvrant des possibilités jusqu'alors insoupçonnées dans le domaine des portées et des hauteurs de bâtiments. De nos jours, la technique de construction incite à réaliser des performances toujours plus remarquables et à rechercher de nouvelles formes de bâtiments :(...)
$163.00
(available to order)
Summary:
L'avènement au XIXe siècle du matériau acier a fondamentalement contribué à l'évolution de l'architecture, en ouvrant des possibilités jusqu'alors insoupçonnées dans le domaine des portées et des hauteurs de bâtiments. De nos jours, la technique de construction incite à réaliser des performances toujours plus remarquables et à rechercher de nouvelles formes de bâtiments :(...)
Subject:
Engineering Structures
Engineering Structures
Publication:
January 2003, Lausanne
January 2003, Lausanne
Title:
Construire en acier
Actions:
Price:
$163.00
(available to order)
Summary:
L'avènement au XIXe siècle du matériau acier a fondamentalement contribué à l'évolution de l'architecture, en ouvrant des possibilités jusqu'alors insoupçonnées dans le domaine des portées et des hauteurs de bâtiments. De nos jours, la technique de construction incite à réaliser des performances toujours plus remarquables et à rechercher de nouvelles formes de bâtiments : le matériau acier a affranchi la construction de presque toutes les limites. Les auteurs de "Construire en acier" se sont proposés de centrer leur ouvrage autour du thème de l'unité de la conception et de la construction, et de présenter clairement les assemblages appropriés à ce type de construction, en fonction du matériau, du traitement, de la fabrication et du montage de l'ouvrage. Largement illustré, ce livre a l'ambition d'être à la fois un manuel et un traité sur la construction en acier. Il offre aux architectes et aux ingénieurs ainsi qu'aux étudiants une référence précieuse sur leur travail de concepteurs ou de constructeurs.
Construire en acier
Actions:
Price:
$163.00
(available to order)
Summary:
L'avènement au XIXe siècle du matériau acier a fondamentalement contribué à l'évolution de l'architecture, en ouvrant des possibilités jusqu'alors insoupçonnées dans le domaine des portées et des hauteurs de bâtiments. De nos jours, la technique de construction incite à réaliser des performances toujours plus remarquables et à rechercher de nouvelles formes de bâtiments : le matériau acier a affranchi la construction de presque toutes les limites. Les auteurs de "Construire en acier" se sont proposés de centrer leur ouvrage autour du thème de l'unité de la conception et de la construction, et de présenter clairement les assemblages appropriés à ce type de construction, en fonction du matériau, du traitement, de la fabrication et du montage de l'ouvrage. Largement illustré, ce livre a l'ambition d'être à la fois un manuel et un traité sur la construction en acier. Il offre aux architectes et aux ingénieurs ainsi qu'aux étudiants une référence précieuse sur leur travail de concepteurs ou de constructeurs.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
January 2003, Lausanne
January 2003, Lausanne
Subject:
Engineering Structures
Engineering Structures
Form:
books
books
Title:
Usines reconverties
Usines reconverties
Actions:
Price:
$39.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Ce livre sur la reconversion de bâtiments industriels est divisé en quatre parties : des espaces publics : salle de sports, centre de documentation, bibliothèques ; des espaces culturels : musées, galeries, théâtre ; des espaces commerciaux : hôtels, centre artisanal, garage ; des appartements et studios. 34 réalisations sont présentées avec photographies et plans(...)
$39.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Ce livre sur la reconversion de bâtiments industriels est divisé en quatre parties : des espaces publics : salle de sports, centre de documentation, bibliothèques ; des espaces culturels : musées, galeries, théâtre ; des espaces commerciaux : hôtels, centre artisanal, garage ; des appartements et studios. 34 réalisations sont présentées avec photographies et plans(...)
Publication:
September 2006, Paris
September 2006, Paris
Title:
Usines reconverties
Actions:
Price:
$39.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Ce livre sur la reconversion de bâtiments industriels est divisé en quatre parties : des espaces publics : salle de sports, centre de documentation, bibliothèques ; des espaces culturels : musées, galeries, théâtre ; des espaces commerciaux : hôtels, centre artisanal, garage ; des appartements et studios. 34 réalisations sont présentées avec photographies et plans d’architectes. Industrial buildings in disuse, which has lost their main function, can be given a new lease of life by projects which allow their reconversion into new and multifunctional solutions living up to the present-day needs. "Industrial chic" reflects this constant and modern transformation of urban landscape in several cities around the world.
Usines reconverties
Actions:
Price:
$39.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Ce livre sur la reconversion de bâtiments industriels est divisé en quatre parties : des espaces publics : salle de sports, centre de documentation, bibliothèques ; des espaces culturels : musées, galeries, théâtre ; des espaces commerciaux : hôtels, centre artisanal, garage ; des appartements et studios. 34 réalisations sont présentées avec photographies et plans d’architectes. Industrial buildings in disuse, which has lost their main function, can be given a new lease of life by projects which allow their reconversion into new and multifunctional solutions living up to the present-day needs. "Industrial chic" reflects this constant and modern transformation of urban landscape in several cities around the world.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
September 2006, Paris
September 2006, Paris
Form:
books
books
Actions:
Price:
$45.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This book presents a terrestrial description of the Seagram Building. It aims to describe how humans and nature interact with the thin crust of the planet. Architecture reorganizes nature and society in particular ways that today demand overt attention and new methods of description. ''The immense material, energy and labor involved in building require a fresh(...)
$45.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This book presents a terrestrial description of the Seagram Building. It aims to describe how humans and nature interact with the thin crust of the planet. Architecture reorganizes nature and society in particular ways that today demand overt attention and new methods of description. ''The immense material, energy and labor involved in building require a fresh(...)
Title:
Unless: the Seagram building construction ecology
Actions:
Price:
$45.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This book presents a terrestrial description of the Seagram Building. It aims to describe how humans and nature interact with the thin crust of the planet. Architecture reorganizes nature and society in particular ways that today demand overt attention and new methods of description. ''The immense material, energy and labor involved in building require a fresh interpretation that better situates the ecological and social potential of design. Architecture and society would benefit from alternative descriptions of building and architecture as terrestrial activities that help imagine how to maximize the impact of architecture on its environment. I argue that the enhancement of a particular building should be inextricable from the enhancement of its world-system and construction ecology. A 'beautiful' building engendered through the vulgarity of uneven exchanges and processes of underdevelopment is no longer a tenable conceit in such a framework. Design can and should evince the inherent solidarity and reciprocity of people, places and politics involved in building architecture.''
Unless: the Seagram building construction ecology
Actions:
Price:
$45.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This book presents a terrestrial description of the Seagram Building. It aims to describe how humans and nature interact with the thin crust of the planet. Architecture reorganizes nature and society in particular ways that today demand overt attention and new methods of description. ''The immense material, energy and labor involved in building require a fresh interpretation that better situates the ecological and social potential of design. Architecture and society would benefit from alternative descriptions of building and architecture as terrestrial activities that help imagine how to maximize the impact of architecture on its environment. I argue that the enhancement of a particular building should be inextricable from the enhancement of its world-system and construction ecology. A 'beautiful' building engendered through the vulgarity of uneven exchanges and processes of underdevelopment is no longer a tenable conceit in such a framework. Design can and should evince the inherent solidarity and reciprocity of people, places and politics involved in building architecture.''
Form:
books
books
Publication:
January 2021
January 2021
Subject:
Engineering Structures
Engineering Structures
Form:
books
books
Actions:
Price:
$59.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Cet ouvrage explore le chef-d'oeuvre de l'ingénieur Sergio Musmeci et de sa femme, l'architecte Zénaïde Zanini: le pont sur le Basento à Potenza. Réalisé entre les années 60 et 70, le pont illustre une manière radicalement différente d'aborder la conception en ingénierie, emblématique des techniques inventées par Musmeci pour confronter les problématiques de(...)
$59.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Cet ouvrage explore le chef-d'oeuvre de l'ingénieur Sergio Musmeci et de sa femme, l'architecte Zénaïde Zanini: le pont sur le Basento à Potenza. Réalisé entre les années 60 et 70, le pont illustre une manière radicalement différente d'aborder la conception en ingénierie, emblématique des techniques inventées par Musmeci pour confronter les problématiques de(...)
Title:
Un pont à part / A distant bridge
Actions:
Price:
$59.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Cet ouvrage explore le chef-d'oeuvre de l'ingénieur Sergio Musmeci et de sa femme, l'architecte Zénaïde Zanini: le pont sur le Basento à Potenza. Réalisé entre les années 60 et 70, le pont illustre une manière radicalement différente d'aborder la conception en ingénierie, emblématique des techniques inventées par Musmeci pour confronter les problématiques de reconstruction qui émergent dans l'Italie de l'après-guerre.
Un pont à part / A distant bridge
Actions:
Price:
$59.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Cet ouvrage explore le chef-d'oeuvre de l'ingénieur Sergio Musmeci et de sa femme, l'architecte Zénaïde Zanini: le pont sur le Basento à Potenza. Réalisé entre les années 60 et 70, le pont illustre une manière radicalement différente d'aborder la conception en ingénierie, emblématique des techniques inventées par Musmeci pour confronter les problématiques de reconstruction qui émergent dans l'Italie de l'après-guerre.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
March 2017
March 2017
Subject:
Engineering Structures
Engineering Structures
Form:
books
books
Price:
$24.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America’s economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of America’s highway system—our interstate numbering system, the centerline that divides roads, and such(...)
$24.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America’s economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of America’s highway system—our interstate numbering system, the centerline that divides roads, and such(...)
Title:
The road taken: the history and future of America's infrastructure
Actions:
Price:
$24.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America’s economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of America’s highway system—our interstate numbering system, the centerline that divides roads, and such taken-for-granted objects as guardrails, stop signs, and traffic lights—all crucial to our national and local infrastructure. A compelling work of history, "The road taken" is also an urgent clarion call aimed at American citizens, politicians, and anyone with a vested interest in our economic well-being. Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling, and Petroski reveals the complex and challenging interplay between government and industry inherent in major infrastructure improvement. The road we take in the next decade toward rebuilding our aging infrastructure will in large part determine our future national prosperity.
The road taken: the history and future of America's infrastructure
Actions:
Price:
$24.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America’s economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of America’s highway system—our interstate numbering system, the centerline that divides roads, and such taken-for-granted objects as guardrails, stop signs, and traffic lights—all crucial to our national and local infrastructure. A compelling work of history, "The road taken" is also an urgent clarion call aimed at American citizens, politicians, and anyone with a vested interest in our economic well-being. Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling, and Petroski reveals the complex and challenging interplay between government and industry inherent in major infrastructure improvement. The road we take in the next decade toward rebuilding our aging infrastructure will in large part determine our future national prosperity.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
February 2017
February 2017
Subject:
Engineering Structures
Engineering Structures
Form:
books
books
Title:
Infrastructure space
Infrastructure space
Actions:
Price:
$94.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Infrastructural systems facilitate the flow of anything from people and goods to resources and information. While engineered to perform specific tasks, such networks also determine the structure of buildings, cities, metropolitan regions, and beyond. Taking this into consideration, this book seeks the expansion and renegotiation of the roles of infrastructure as not only(...)
$94.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Infrastructural systems facilitate the flow of anything from people and goods to resources and information. While engineered to perform specific tasks, such networks also determine the structure of buildings, cities, metropolitan regions, and beyond. Taking this into consideration, this book seeks the expansion and renegotiation of the roles of infrastructure as not only(...)
Subject:
Engineering Structures
Engineering Structures
Publication:
January 2017
January 2017
Title:
Infrastructure space
Actions:
Price:
$94.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Infrastructural systems facilitate the flow of anything from people and goods to resources and information. While engineered to perform specific tasks, such networks also determine the structure of buildings, cities, metropolitan regions, and beyond. Taking this into consideration, this book seeks the expansion and renegotiation of the roles of infrastructure as not only a technical, but also a political, economic, social, and even aesthetic matter of concern for all. It entails both the means for achieving more resilient forms of development and a right to a sustainable way of life. With 25 essays by Keller Easterling, Michael Dear, Salmaan Craig, and Nancy Couling, among others.
Infrastructure space
Actions:
Price:
$94.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Infrastructural systems facilitate the flow of anything from people and goods to resources and information. While engineered to perform specific tasks, such networks also determine the structure of buildings, cities, metropolitan regions, and beyond. Taking this into consideration, this book seeks the expansion and renegotiation of the roles of infrastructure as not only a technical, but also a political, economic, social, and even aesthetic matter of concern for all. It entails both the means for achieving more resilient forms of development and a right to a sustainable way of life. With 25 essays by Keller Easterling, Michael Dear, Salmaan Craig, and Nancy Couling, among others.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
January 2017
January 2017
Subject:
Engineering Structures
Engineering Structures
Form:
books
books
Title:
Yavuz Sultan Selim bridge
Yavuz Sultan Selim bridge
Actions:
Price:
$85.00
(available to order)
Summary:
A fascinating look at one of the most important engineering achievements of recent times. This book chronicles in detail the various phases of the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, which is the third to connect Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus straits. From its design and engineering concept to its realization, this book offers detailed insights through a historical essay,(...)
$85.00
(available to order)
Summary:
A fascinating look at one of the most important engineering achievements of recent times. This book chronicles in detail the various phases of the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, which is the third to connect Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus straits. From its design and engineering concept to its realization, this book offers detailed insights through a historical essay,(...)
Subject:
Engineering Structures
Engineering Structures
Publication:
September 2017
September 2017
Title:
Yavuz Sultan Selim bridge
Actions:
Price:
$85.00
(available to order)
Summary:
A fascinating look at one of the most important engineering achievements of recent times. This book chronicles in detail the various phases of the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, which is the third to connect Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus straits. From its design and engineering concept to its realization, this book offers detailed insights through a historical essay, texts, interviews, illustrations, diagrams, and stunning photography. The book pays particular attention to the engineering accomplishments of the bridge, through a series of drawings and photographs that explain the process of its realization and its operative functionality. It also captures, through specially commissioned images by renowned photographer Michel Denancé, the experience of the traveler crossing the bridge from Europe to Asia, its presence as a major work of infrastructure in the landscape, and its relation to the city of Istanbul.
Yavuz Sultan Selim bridge
Actions:
Price:
$85.00
(available to order)
Summary:
A fascinating look at one of the most important engineering achievements of recent times. This book chronicles in detail the various phases of the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, which is the third to connect Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus straits. From its design and engineering concept to its realization, this book offers detailed insights through a historical essay, texts, interviews, illustrations, diagrams, and stunning photography. The book pays particular attention to the engineering accomplishments of the bridge, through a series of drawings and photographs that explain the process of its realization and its operative functionality. It also captures, through specially commissioned images by renowned photographer Michel Denancé, the experience of the traveler crossing the bridge from Europe to Asia, its presence as a major work of infrastructure in the landscape, and its relation to the city of Istanbul.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
September 2017
September 2017
Subject:
Engineering Structures
Engineering Structures
Form:
books
books
Actions:
Price:
$88.95
(available to order)
Summary:
For the sheer quantity and quality of his inventions, scientist and structural engineer Vladimir Shukhov (1853–1939) is sometimes referred to as the “Russian Thomas Edison.” Among his pioneering contributions are a number of innovations related to the oil industry, including the design and construction of the first Russian pipeline and the world’s first industrial plant(...)
$88.95
(available to order)
Summary:
For the sheer quantity and quality of his inventions, scientist and structural engineer Vladimir Shukhov (1853–1939) is sometimes referred to as the “Russian Thomas Edison.” Among his pioneering contributions are a number of innovations related to the oil industry, including the design and construction of the first Russian pipeline and the world’s first industrial plant(...)
Publication:
August 2016
August 2016
Title:
Networks of construction: Vladimir Shukohov
Actions:
Price:
$88.95
(available to order)
Summary:
For the sheer quantity and quality of his inventions, scientist and structural engineer Vladimir Shukhov (1853–1939) is sometimes referred to as the “Russian Thomas Edison.” Among his pioneering contributions are a number of innovations related to the oil industry, including the design and construction of the first Russian pipeline and the world’s first industrial plant for oil cracking. His groundbreaking structural works include the cable-supported hanging roof and the hyperboloid lattice tower epitomized by the Shukhov Tower in Moscow, which bears his name. Networks of Construction collects Shukhov’s trailblazing achievements from the turn of the twentieth century, exploring his career and complicated creative process. Each of Shukhov’s projects, the book shows, was realized through an elaborate process beginning with an intense period of planning to account for the interconnections among a wide range of factors, from the technical background of the construction workers to technology transfer, the nomenclature of steel grades, and the scientification of construction knowledge. Ekaterina Nozhova and Uta Hassler of the Institute of Historic Building Research and Conservation at ETH Zurich have painstakingly reconstructed Shukhov’s process through a wealth of drawings, photographs, and documents.
Networks of construction: Vladimir Shukohov
Actions:
Price:
$88.95
(available to order)
Summary:
For the sheer quantity and quality of his inventions, scientist and structural engineer Vladimir Shukhov (1853–1939) is sometimes referred to as the “Russian Thomas Edison.” Among his pioneering contributions are a number of innovations related to the oil industry, including the design and construction of the first Russian pipeline and the world’s first industrial plant for oil cracking. His groundbreaking structural works include the cable-supported hanging roof and the hyperboloid lattice tower epitomized by the Shukhov Tower in Moscow, which bears his name. Networks of Construction collects Shukhov’s trailblazing achievements from the turn of the twentieth century, exploring his career and complicated creative process. Each of Shukhov’s projects, the book shows, was realized through an elaborate process beginning with an intense period of planning to account for the interconnections among a wide range of factors, from the technical background of the construction workers to technology transfer, the nomenclature of steel grades, and the scientification of construction knowledge. Ekaterina Nozhova and Uta Hassler of the Institute of Historic Building Research and Conservation at ETH Zurich have painstakingly reconstructed Shukhov’s process through a wealth of drawings, photographs, and documents.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
August 2016
August 2016
