品牌：Bill Addis
基本信息
·出版社：Phaidon Press Ltd
·页码：608 页码
·出版日：2007年
·ISBN：0714841463
·条码：9780714841465
·装帧：精装
·英语：英语
·外文书名：Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering and Construction (Hard
内容简介
From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, "Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction" charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated volume, aimed at students and young professionals as well as general readers, explores the materials, classic texts, instruments, and theories that have propelled modern engineering, and the famous and not-so-famous buildings designed through the ages, from the Parthenon to Chartes Cathedral and the dome of St. Peter's, from eighteenth-century silk mills in England to the Crystal Palace, and on to the first Chicago high-rises, the Sydney Opera House, and the latest "green" skyscrapers. The book concentrates on developments since the industrial and scientific revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Incorporated within the continuous narrative are sidebars with short biographies of eminent engineers, excerpts from classic texts, stories of individual projects of major importance, and brief histories of key concepts such as calculus. Also included are extensive reference materials: appendices, a glossary, bibliography, and index.
作者简介
Bill Addis is a consulting engineer based in London. He is the author of numerous books and papers on engineering history and design and has curated several exhibitions on both the engineer's contribution to contemporary architecture and the history of structural engineering. Over the past twenty-five years, he has lectured at the universities of Cambridge, Bath, and Reading, and at University College, London. Addis studied engineering and philosophy at the University of Cambridge before training and working as a design engineer in the aerospace industry. He holds a doctorate degree in the history and philosophy of engineering design from the University of Reading.
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Wallpaper*, May 2007
'...a labour of love. ... chronicles everything from geometric pattern in mediaeval cathedrals to the most daring uses of reinforced concrete'
Alex Wright, architect, Architects' Journal, 29 April 2007
`...this is a truly heavyweight publication which every student of engineering and architecture should have highlighted on their first-year reading list.'
Building Design, March 2007
`The strength of this ambitious publication is its linking of technical development to the social and cultural context.'
Financial Times, 7 April 2007
`...more than 800 photographs, plans and drawings bring to life some of architecture's greatest achievements.'
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