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Drivers in the nation's capital face a host of hazards: high-speed traffic circles, presidential motorcades, jaywalking tourists, and bewildering signs that send unsuspecting motorists from the Lincoln Memorial into suburban Virginia in less than two minutes. And parking? Don't bet on it unless you're in the fast lane of the Capital Beltway during rush hour. Little(...)
The Great Society subway : a history of the Washington Metro
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Drivers in the nation's capital face a host of hazards: high-speed traffic circles, presidential motorcades, jaywalking tourists, and bewildering signs that send unsuspecting motorists from the Lincoln Memorial into suburban Virginia in less than two minutes. And parking? Don't bet on it unless you're in the fast lane of the Capital Beltway during rush hour. Little wonder, then, that so many residents and visitors rely on the Washington Metro, the 106-mile rapid transit system that serves the District of Columbia and its inner suburbs. In the first comprehensive history of the Metro, Zachary M. Schrag tells the story of the Great Society subway from its earliest rumblings to the present day, from Arlington to College Park, Eisenhower to Marion Barry. Unlike the pre–World War II rail systems of New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, the Metro was built at a time when most American families already owned cars, and when most American cities had dedicated themselves to freeways, not subways. Why did the nation's capital take a different path? What were the consequences of that decision? Using extensive archival research as well as oral history, Schrag argues that the Metro can be understood only in the political context from which it was born: the Great Society liberalism of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. The Metro emerged from a period when Americans believed in public investments suited to the grandeur and dignity of the world's richest nation. The Metro was built not merely to move commuters, but in the words of Lyndon Johnson, to create "a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community." Schrag scrutinizes the project from its earliest days, including general planning, routes, station architecture, funding decisions, land-use impacts, and the behavior of Metro riders. The story of the Great society subway sheds light on the development of metropolitan Washington, postwar urban policy, and the promises and limits of rail transit in American cities.
Structures d’ingénierie
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The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container(...)
The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger
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The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container ever written. It recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world.
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Like the onetime industrial facilities that have become Dia : Beacon, Mass MoCA and the Tate Modern, among other factory conversions, Berlin's Rummelsberg electric plant is characterized by wide expanses of brick, glass and, most importantly, space. Today, the huge power station with its extraordinary, light-filled hall can be rented for events and film production, but(...)
Power and energy : Power Plant Rummelsburg - Berlin
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Like the onetime industrial facilities that have become Dia : Beacon, Mass MoCA and the Tate Modern, among other factory conversions, Berlin's Rummelsberg electric plant is characterized by wide expanses of brick, glass and, most importantly, space. Today, the huge power station with its extraordinary, light-filled hall can be rented for events and film production, but its future is not secure. Power and Energies reutilization plans, which were conceived for a contest sponsored by Vattenfall Europe AG, come from architects, planners and conservationists alike, and are full of creative architectural solutions and innovative ideas. This volume combines essays on the history of the building with the entire range of plans submitted, including detailed documentation of prizewinning designs. Its models and ideas will entrance anyone considering the conversion of large historical buildings or examining the phenomenon.
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Between 1998 and 2005, the Structural Engineers Association of New York, along with the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Architecture and Design and the School of Architecture at both Princeton University and MIT, co-sponsored a lecture series in honor of the renowned Spanish and Mexican structural engineer Felix Candela, who led the early exploration of concrete(...)
Seven structural engineers: the Felix Candela lectures
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Between 1998 and 2005, the Structural Engineers Association of New York, along with the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Architecture and Design and the School of Architecture at both Princeton University and MIT, co-sponsored a lecture series in honor of the renowned Spanish and Mexican structural engineer Felix Candela, who led the early exploration of concrete shell structures. These lectures are now available in the format of this book: discussed is the work of the Uruguayan engineer Eladio Dieste, who pioneered the use of thin, light-filled shell structures in masonry. Cecil Balmond recounts his collaboration with architects Rem Koolhaas and Daniel Libeskind. The Swiss bridge designer Christian Menn discusses his iconic long-span prestressed concrete bridges, including the new Charles River Bridge in Boston. Leslie E. Robertson, who is especially known for his work on the structural design of the World Trade Center complex with Minoru Yamasaki, discusses this design along with many other projects. Mamoru Kawaguchi recounts his own work in fabric structures and his collaboration with architects Kenzo Tange and Arata Isozaki. Joerg Schlaich talks about his creative collaboration with Frank Gehry. Heinz Isler's contribution is in the aerea of freeform concrete shell constructions. David Billington and Maria Garlock recount the work of master builders Anton Tedesko, Pier Luigi Nervi, Felix Candela, and Heinz Isler.
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Transport buildings - railway stations, airport terminals, bus and coach stations, motorway service areas, filling stations, and garages - are such a part of everyday scenery they are easily overlooked. This book is the first to take a close look at the architecture of British transport buildings of the twentieth century, a period during which transportation systems,(...)
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février 2005, New Haven
The Architecture of British transport in the twentieth century
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Transport buildings - railway stations, airport terminals, bus and coach stations, motorway service areas, filling stations, and garages - are such a part of everyday scenery they are easily overlooked. This book is the first to take a close look at the architecture of British transport buildings of the twentieth century, a period during which transportation systems, methods, and even purposes underwent enormous change. The contributors to the book consider both well known and unfamiliar transport buildings from a variety of intriguing viewpoints. They explore the design and promotion of the London Underground, the battle between road and rail, the intentions of architects - to glamorize travel, to calm fears, to accommodate huge numbers of travellers - and the political and cultural significance of the transport buildings that have become a major part of modern life.
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Dream bridges / traumbrucken
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Alle Brucken sind Traume, Visionen, Metaphern - dieser Band zeigt 25 Bruckenprojekte und Bruckenrealisierungen Wolfdietrich Ziesels, eines der fuhrenden Bauingenieure Europas, unter anderen die mit dem Adolf-Loos-Preis ausgezeichnete Brucke Hackinger Steg in Wien.Ziesel setzt asthetische Anforderungen meisterlich konstruktiv um. Er entwickelt vor den Augen des Lesers(...)
Dream bridges / traumbrucken
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Alle Brucken sind Traume, Visionen, Metaphern - dieser Band zeigt 25 Bruckenprojekte und Bruckenrealisierungen Wolfdietrich Ziesels, eines der fuhrenden Bauingenieure Europas, unter anderen die mit dem Adolf-Loos-Preis ausgezeichnete Brucke Hackinger Steg in Wien.Ziesel setzt asthetische Anforderungen meisterlich konstruktiv um. Er entwickelt vor den Augen des Lesers jeweils optimale Konstruktionen unter realen Bedingungen in kreativen Entwurfsprozessen, und ermutigt dazu, Ingenieurbaukunst zu wagen.Sechs Essays, darunter von Jorg Schlaich, Gunther Feuerstein und Otto Kapfinger, runden das Spannungsfeld zwischen kreativer und technischer, okonomischer und poetischer Herausforderung an Entwerfer und konstruktiv Interessierte ab.
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An updated classic on designing both functional and visually stunning bridges. This highly visual guide to understanding and using aesthetics in the design of bridges is now available in a second edition. You'll find updated bridge examples, improved photographs, and more technical depth for serious engineering study. New case studies of bridges currently underway(...)
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janvier 1900, Hoboken, New Jersey
Bridgescape : the art of designing bridges
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An updated classic on designing both functional and visually stunning bridges. This highly visual guide to understanding and using aesthetics in the design of bridges is now available in a second edition. You'll find updated bridge examples, improved photographs, and more technical depth for serious engineering study. New case studies of bridges currently underway provide real-world coverage, with an emphasis on the relationship between design problems, planning, and solutions, along with structural and cost challenges. Featuring a larger page size to better highlight the detailed illustrations and photos, this edition's entirely new coverage includes discussion on the "whys" behind various recommendations, new material on moveable bridges, ways to respond to the structural and cost challenges involved in construction, integration of Context-Sensitive Design/Context-Sensitive Solutions (CSD/CSS) into the design process, twelve new case studies of bridges, with an emphasis on the relationship between design problems and planning their solutions, and information on the contribution of bridge aesthetics to environmental impact studies.
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janvier 1900, Hoboken, New Jersey
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«Superstucture» présente les cent constructions les plus impressionnantes et les plus ambitieuses du XXe siècle. Le tunnel le plus long du monde, la montagne russe la plus élevée, le pont le plus grand, le barrage le plus imposant, le téléscope le plus performant, l'aire de lancement la plus étendue : autant d'exemples extrêmes de l'ingéniosité de l'homme face aux(...)
Superstructures : 100 ans de défis architecturaux
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«Superstucture» présente les cent constructions les plus impressionnantes et les plus ambitieuses du XXe siècle. Le tunnel le plus long du monde, la montagne russe la plus élevée, le pont le plus grand, le barrage le plus imposant, le téléscope le plus performant, l'aire de lancement la plus étendue : autant d'exemples extrêmes de l'ingéniosité de l'homme face aux éléments et des progrès fabuleux dont la science, qu'il s'agisse de recherche spatiale ou de physique nucléaire, s'est révélée capable
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Construire un pont pour éviter de passer les rivières à gué ; tailler une route à flanc de montagne à travers les Alpes ; creuser des canaux pour faciliter la circulation des biens et des personnes ; quadriller le territoire de lignes de chemin de fer pour désenclaver les villages ; percer de larges avenues pour donner aux villes une nouvelle clarté ; apporter l'eau, le(...)
Construire, équiper, aménager : la France de ponts en chaussées
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Construire un pont pour éviter de passer les rivières à gué ; tailler une route à flanc de montagne à travers les Alpes ; creuser des canaux pour faciliter la circulation des biens et des personnes ; quadriller le territoire de lignes de chemin de fer pour désenclaver les villages ; percer de larges avenues pour donner aux villes une nouvelle clarté ; apporter l'eau, le gaz et l'électricité «à tous les étages» ; construire des hôpitaux, des écoles, des marchés ; loger le plus grand nombre ; relier, aménager, équiper : les Travaux publics accomplissent depuis le XVIIIe siècle une œuvre titanesque pour façonner la France.
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décembre 2004, Paris
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L'art des structures
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Le thème de la structure constitue depuis toujours un aspect fondamental de la construction, intéressant aussi bien les ingénieurs que les architectes. Cet ouvrage consacré aux structures en architecture s'est donné pour objectif de contribuer à faciliter le dialogue entre ces deux domaines professionnels. «L'art des structures» offre un panorama complet sur les(...)
L'art des structures
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Le thème de la structure constitue depuis toujours un aspect fondamental de la construction, intéressant aussi bien les ingénieurs que les architectes. Cet ouvrage consacré aux structures en architecture s'est donné pour objectif de contribuer à faciliter le dialogue entre ces deux domaines professionnels. «L'art des structures» offre un panorama complet sur les structures portantes et leur fonctionnement, en décrivant la manière dont les charges sont reprises et transmises jusqu'au sol.
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juin 2004, Lausanne
Structures d’ingénierie