Author: Rafael GuastavinoPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Read before the Society of Arts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, by R. Guastavino, architect. Second edition.
Essay on the Theory and History of Cohesive Construction
Author: Rafael GuastavinoPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Read before the Society of Arts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, by R. Guastavino, architect. Second edition.
Essays on the History of Mechanics
Author: Antonio BecchiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 303488091X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The history of mechanics, and more particularly, the history of mechanics applied to constructions, constitutes a field of research that is relatively recent. This volume, together with the recent publication "Towards a History of Construction", is intended as an homage to the two eminent scholars who made a determinant contribution to the history of mechanics: Edoardo Benvenuto and Clifford Truesdell.
The American Architect and Building News
Author: A Dictionary of Architecture and Building
Author: Russell SturgisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Las bovedas de Guastavino
Author: OchsendorfPublisher: Actar D, Inc.
ISBN: 1638408424
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Cada año, millones de personas pasan bajo las bóvedas tabicadas de Guastavino en espacios históricos de todos los Estados Unidos, desde la Sala de Registro de Ellis Island (1917) hasta el Biltmore Estate en las montañas de Carolina del Norte (1895), y desde el Capitolio del Estado de Nebraska (1932), en Lincoln, hasta los e dificios del campus de la Universidad Carnegie Mellon de Pittsburgh (1912). Sin embargo, son pocos los visitantes que aprecian la aportación de la familia valenciana Guastavino a la arquitectura estadounidense y las condiciones que propiciaron que las bóvedas tabicadas de Guastavino fueran durante décadas uno de los sistemas estructurales preferidos.
Building Construction Before Mechanization
Author: John FitchenPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262560474
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
How were huge stones moved from quarries to the sites of Egyptian pyramids? How did the cathedral builders of the Middle Ages lift blocks to great heights by muscle power alone? In this intriguing book John Fitchen explains and illustrates the solutions to these and many other puzzles in preindustrial building construction. This is the first general survey of the practices and role of the builder (as opposed to the designer) in constructing an array of structures. Fitchen's approach gives a valuable hands-on feel for what it's like to work with ropes and ladders, wedges and slings; with crews engaged in well digging, bridge building, and the transporting of obelisks hundreds of miles by water and over land. The buildings discussed range from the tents, tepees, and igloos of nomadic tribes to the monumental pyramids of Egypt, the temples of Greece, the aqueducts of Rome, and the cathedrals of medieval Europe.
Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years ...
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Subject Index of Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
The Soundscape of Modernity
Author: Emily ThompsonPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262701068
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
A vibrant history of acoustical technology and aural culture in early-twentieth-century America. In this history of aural culture in early-twentieth-century America, Emily Thompson charts dramatic transformations in what people heard and how they listened. What they heard was a new kind of sound that was the product of modern technology. They listened as newly critical consumers of aural commodities. By examining the technologies that produced this sound, as well as the culture that enthusiastically consumed it, Thompson recovers a lost dimension of the Machine Age and deepens our understanding of the experience of change that characterized the era. Reverberation equations, sound meters, microphones, and acoustical tiles were deployed in places as varied as Boston's Symphony Hall, New York's office skyscrapers, and the soundstages of Hollywood. The control provided by these technologies, however, was applied in ways that denied the particularity of place, and the diverse spaces of modern America began to sound alike as a universal new sound predominated. Although this sound—clear, direct, efficient, and nonreverberant—had little to say about the physical spaces in which it was produced, it speaks volumes about the culture that created it. By listening to it, Thompson constructs a compelling new account of the experience of modernity in America.
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