This book offers an in-depth look at space frame architecture, including space frame projects completed by such notable architects as I. M. Pei, Buckminster Fuller, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn. Both theory and practice are included to offer a comprehensive overview of the history, current use, and future outlook for creating space frame structures. The 15 distinguised contributors to this book have extensive background in the architecture of space frames and offer an international perspective on the subject. The text is illustrated with hundreds of line drawings, black-and-white photos, and an eight-page color insert.
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Examines the practical as well as theoretical aspects of space frames. Explains the geometric laws that govern the shapes such as prisms, antiprisms, domes, folded plate structures and surveys the symbolic meanings ascribed to many polyhedra. DLC: Space (Architecture)
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