Here is a clear and enthusiastic introduction to building methods from ancient time to the present day, illustrated throughout with line drawings. In addition, Mr. Salvadori discusses recent advances in science and technology that have had important effects on the planning and construction of buildings.
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Parts you slog through, parts you gobble,
This review is from: Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture (Paperback)
Salvadori clearly explains, with the invaluable aid of lots of little pictures, how and why buildings stand up. There are chapters on cathedrals, the Eiffel Tower, the Hagia Sophia, bridges, domes, and so forth. The chapter on wind is particularly fascinating--I found out a lot of things I'd had no idea of. Other chapters, like "Form-Resistant Structures," were pretty deadly dull. Overall, though, the book was well worth reading. It's not always entertaining, but it's always informative, and sometimes tremendously interesting.
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This is a book that sums-up alot of material about loads, properties of building materials, beams and columns, and translates it into the strength of modern structures. I found the book fascinating and it answered many questions, among them why the height vs base of the pyramids automatically contain the value of PI. This book discussed the anchoring of todays skyscrapers and large structures. This is a book that explains where the forces and loads are projected and how they are contained and countered without getting into the mathematical aspect of it. This author did an excellent job in conveyingthe logic behind structural engineering. Well done.
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This book was recommended to me by my architecture professor and it is well worth reading. Without going into too much physics the author explains clearly the importance of forces like wind on structures like bridges, skyscrapers, domes etc. To illustrate these infuences there are chapters on some of the architectural wonders of the world: Eiffel Tower, Pyramids, Brooklyn Bridge and Aya Sofia to name but a few. There are no photographs in this book but crudely drawn pictures, which actually makes the reader understand the concepts better. If you like buildings and architecture in general this book is instrumental in the understandings of why buildings stand up.
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Compared to other human activities, architecture is a young art that had its beginnings only 10,000 years ago when men and women, having discovered agriculture and husbandry, were able to give up roaming the surface of the earth in search of food. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
inclined buttresses, semiotic message, inner aisles, sand hog, rotational equilibrium, arch action, aesthetic message, outer aisles, saddle surfaces, tension ring, groined vaults, first platform, dish roof, working chamber, second platform, structural behavior, outer columns, gravity loads Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Hagia Sophia, Great Pyramid, Brooklyn Bridge, Eiffel Tower, Sears Tower, First Master, Saint Peter, World Trade Center, John Roebling, Santa Maria del Fiore, Woolworth Building, George Washington Bridge, Middle Ages, Pier Luigi Nervi, Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Washington Roebling, World War, John Hancock Insurance Company Building, Mexico City, Asia Minor, High Gothic, Louisiana Superdome, New Jersey New!
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Compared to other human activities, architecture is a young art that had its beginnings only 10,000 years ago when men and women, having discovered agriculture and husbandry, were able to give up roaming the surface of the earth in search of food. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
inclined buttresses, semiotic message, inner aisles, sand hog, rotational equilibrium, arch action, aesthetic message, outer aisles, saddle surfaces, tension ring, groined vaults, first platform, dish roof, working chamber, second platform, structural behavior, outer columns, gravity loads Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Hagia Sophia, Great Pyramid, Brooklyn Bridge, Eiffel Tower, Sears Tower, First Master, Saint Peter, World Trade Center, John Roebling, Santa Maria del Fiore, Woolworth Building, George Washington Bridge, Middle Ages, Pier Luigi Nervi, Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Washington Roebling, World War, John Hancock Insurance Company Building, Mexico City, Asia Minor, High Gothic, Louisiana Superdome, New Jersey New!
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- When The Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells on page 269
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- The Gothic Enterprise: A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral by Robert A. Scott in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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