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"If it isn't Electric, it isn't Modern." Such was the slogan of the Philadelphia Electric Company, developer of an unprecedented network of massive metropolitan power stations servicing greater Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. These once-brilliant sentinels of civic utility and activity were designed to convey solidity and immensity in an age of deep(...)
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November 2016
Palazzos of power : central station of the Phalidelphia Electric Company
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"If it isn't Electric, it isn't Modern." Such was the slogan of the Philadelphia Electric Company, developer of an unprecedented network of massive metropolitan power stations servicing greater Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. These once-brilliant sentinels of civic utility and activity were designed to convey solidity and immensity in an age of deep public skepticism. They now stand vacant and decaying, a blight in the eyes of city planners and a beacon to urban explorers.'the first book on the buildings and machines that made possible the electrification of the United States, "Palazzos of power" offers a visual and analytical exploration of architecture, technology, place, loss, and reuse. With a foreword by David Nye, this collection of Joseph Elliott's large-format photographs reveal the urban landscape, monumental spaces, giant machinery, and intricate controls that made up the central station. Aaron Wunsch's essay provides historical context on the social and political climate.
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Tents have been prized for centuries for their lightness, mobility, small footprint and structural elegance. New tents offer innovative and significant solutions to age-old problems. With the demand on architects to touch the earth lightly, together with a cross-disciplinary interest in technotextiles, membrane structures are assuming new prominence and pleasing forms.(...)
New tent architecture
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Tents have been prized for centuries for their lightness, mobility, small footprint and structural elegance. New tents offer innovative and significant solutions to age-old problems. With the demand on architects to touch the earth lightly, together with a cross-disciplinary interest in technotextiles, membrane structures are assuming new prominence and pleasing forms. This wide-ranging international survey looks at the exciting possibilities of contemporary tensile building and the most interesting membrane structures created in recent years.
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A lavishly illustrated exploration of these landscape-defining structures across the United States. Dams are a monumental presence on the American landscape. This newest book in the Norton/Library of Congress series shows that the history of dam development is characterized by invention and innovation, and parallels that of the United States. It emphasizes the unique(...)
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A lavishly illustrated exploration of these landscape-defining structures across the United States. Dams are a monumental presence on the American landscape. This newest book in the Norton/Library of Congress series shows that the history of dam development is characterized by invention and innovation, and parallels that of the United States. It emphasizes the unique design and engineering complexities of these impressive structures.
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Le génie parasismique traite de l'impact des séismes sur les structures et des moyens d'y remédier. Il s'appuie notamment sur une excellente connaissance des méthodes de dimensionnement parasismique, et en particulier du dimensionnement en capacité. Rédigé par deux des spécialistes francophones du domaine, cet ouvrage offre une vue exhaustive de l'ensemble des moyens mis(...)
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January 1900, Lausanne
Génie parasismique: conception et dimension des bâtiments
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Le génie parasismique traite de l'impact des séismes sur les structures et des moyens d'y remédier. Il s'appuie notamment sur une excellente connaissance des méthodes de dimensionnement parasismique, et en particulier du dimensionnement en capacité. Rédigé par deux des spécialistes francophones du domaine, cet ouvrage offre une vue exhaustive de l'ensemble des moyens mis à disposition de l'ingénieur pour limiter l'impact des manifestations sismiques sur les constructions. Il montre toute l'importance de la prise en compte des sollicitations sismiques lors de la phase de conception de bâtiments neufs. Il présente et explique en détail les spécificités du comportement sismique et la méthode de dimensionnement en capacité, développée expressément pour le cas sismique. L'application de cette méthode est traitée dans le cadre des normes de construction les plus récentes. Le nouvel ouvrage de référence en langue française pour les étudiants ingénieurs et les ingénieurs praticiens.
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Cet ouvrage expose de manière claire et synthétique la problématique de la prise en compte des séismes lors de la construction de bâtiments. Principalement destiné aux praticiens du secteur du bâtiment non spécialistes du sujet, il offre un aperçu complet de l'ensemble des éléments constructifs à considérer afin d'éviter tout désastre lors d'un séisme. L'ouvrage aborde(...)
Séismes et construction : éléments pour non-spécialistes
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Cet ouvrage expose de manière claire et synthétique la problématique de la prise en compte des séismes lors de la construction de bâtiments. Principalement destiné aux praticiens du secteur du bâtiment non spécialistes du sujet, il offre un aperçu complet de l'ensemble des éléments constructifs à considérer afin d'éviter tout désastre lors d'un séisme. L'ouvrage aborde les thèmes de la vulnérabilité des bâtiments, de la conception parasismique, du dimensionnement et des normes de construction à adopter, ainsi que de l'évaluation sismique des ouvrages existants. Chaque chapitre se clôt pari un résumé synthétique, et un lexique des définitions et des termes spécifiques utilisés dans le texte complète l'ouvrage. Rédigé dans un langage clair et accessible aux profanes du domaine, cet ouvrage sans précédent ni équivalent en langue française constitue une véritable référence pour les architectes, maîtres d'ouvrages et ingénieurs conseil, ainsi que pour un large public intéressé par cette problématique.
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Using materials and structures to form the guiding principles for architectural knowledge, On span and space offers an understanding of architecture from the consideration of how architectural works are actually put together.
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December 2007, London, New York
On span and space: exploring structures in architecture
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Using materials and structures to form the guiding principles for architectural knowledge, On span and space offers an understanding of architecture from the consideration of how architectural works are actually put together.
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Recent innovations in computational techniques, material systems and fabrication processes have revolutionized the design and construction of surface structures. Innovative Surface Structures is an in-depth introduction to the fundamentals of surface structures, and provides the techniques and knowledge necessary to design folded plates, shells and tensile membranes in a(...)
Innovative surface structures: technologies and applications
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Recent innovations in computational techniques, material systems and fabrication processes have revolutionized the design and construction of surface structures. Innovative Surface Structures is an in-depth introduction to the fundamentals of surface structures, and provides the techniques and knowledge necessary to design folded plates, shells and tensile membranes in a broad variety of materials.
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January 2008, New York
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The ten essays gathered in this volume offer insight into the collaborations between architects and structural engineers that engendered many of the most important buildings erected in Japan after 1945, with special focus on the work of Tange Kenzo, Kawaguchi Mamoru, Kimura Toshihiko, Matsui Gengo, Saitoh Masao, Sasaki Mutsuro and Tsuboi Yoshikatsu. At once scholarly and(...)
Structured lineages: learning from Japanese structural design
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The ten essays gathered in this volume offer insight into the collaborations between architects and structural engineers that engendered many of the most important buildings erected in Japan after 1945, with special focus on the work of Tange Kenzo, Kawaguchi Mamoru, Kimura Toshihiko, Matsui Gengo, Saitoh Masao, Sasaki Mutsuro and Tsuboi Yoshikatsu. At once scholarly and accessible, these conversations and essays illustrate how intimately the innovations of this collaborative tradition passed from one generation to the next.
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As we stand on the cusp of a fundamental restructuring of the housing and building industries, this book provides timely insights into the promise of prefabricated housing. The idea of a more industrialised approach to house building is not a new one: since the 19th century, designers, inventors, engineers, builders, developers, and entrepreneurs have all been fascinated(...)
Prefab housing and the future of building
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As we stand on the cusp of a fundamental restructuring of the housing and building industries, this book provides timely insights into the promise of prefabricated housing. The idea of a more industrialised approach to house building is not a new one: since the 19th century, designers, inventors, engineers, builders, developers, and entrepreneurs have all been fascinated by the idea of the factory-built, modular home. But international housing affordability crises, emerging technologies, and concerns for more sustainable building practices have given a new urgency to the need to transform building construction in the 21st century.
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Phares du monde
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Cet ouvrage présente des plans d'architecte, des dessins d'époque et des schémas d'élévation, des photographies soulignant l'innovation et la technologie qui se cachent derrière 50 phares historiques construits dans le monde entier entre le XVIIIe et le XXe siècle.
Phares du monde
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Cet ouvrage présente des plans d'architecte, des dessins d'époque et des schémas d'élévation, des photographies soulignant l'innovation et la technologie qui se cachent derrière 50 phares historiques construits dans le monde entier entre le XVIIIe et le XXe siècle.
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