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Guastavino Tapa dura – 15 Enero 2010

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Since the time of ancient Rome, architects, engineers, and builders have struggled with the problem of building domedceilings over large spaces. No one was more skilled at this than the Rafael Guastavino family, a father and son team of Spanish immigrants who oversaw the construction of thousands of spectacular thin-tile vaults across the United States between the 1880s and the 1950s. These versatile, strong, and fireproof vaults were built by Guastavino in more than two hundred major buildings in Manhattan, and in hundreds more across the country, including Grand Central Terminal, Carnegie Hall, the Biltmore Estate, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Registry Hall at Ellis Island, and many major university buildings. Their patented vaulting techniques made it possible for Beaux-Arts architects such as McKim, Mead and White to create the bold, broad spaces that made them famous. Yet, because the Guastavinos served only as contractors on these projects, their firms accomplishment
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    256 páginas
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    Princeton Architectural Press
  4. Fecha de publicación
    15 Enero 2010
  5. Edad de lectura
    A partir de 18 años
  6. Dimensiones
    8.75 x 1 x 11.25 pulgadas
  7. ISBN-10
    1568987412
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    978-1568987415
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"An absorbing and meticulously researched book... Beautiful photos by Michael Freeman add visual drama to an already fascinating story... A must-read for architects, historians, structural engineers, and any professional who might be called upon to restore a Guastavino installation." --Traditional Building, January 2011

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John Ochsendorf is an engineer and educator specializing in the history and technology of historic structures. He was the first engineer to be awarded a Rome Prize (2007) and the first structural engineer to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (2008). He currently teaches architecture and civil and environmental engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Editorial ‏ : ‎ Princeton Architectural Press; 1ª ed. 2009 edición (15 Enero 2010)
  • Idioma ‏ : ‎ Inglés
  • Tapa dura ‏ : ‎ 256 páginas
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1568987412
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1568987415
  • Edad de lectura ‏ : ‎ A partir de 18 años
  • Dimensiones ‏ : ‎ 8.75 x 1 x 11.25 pulgadas
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    Michael Freeman, professional photographer and author, with 147 book titles to his credit, was born in England in 1945, took a Masters in Geography at Brasenose College, Oxford University, and then worked in advertising in London for six years. He made the break from there in 1971 to travel up the Amazon with two secondhand cameras, and when Time-Life used many of the pictures extensively in the Amazon volume of their World's Wild Places series, including the cover, they encouraged him to begin a full-time photographic career.

    Since then, working for editorial clients that include all the world's major magazines, and notably the Smithsonian Magazine (with which he has had a 30-year association, shooting more than 40 stories), Freeman's reputation has been consolidated as one of the leading reportage photographers. Of his many books, which have sold 4 million copies worldwide, more than 60 titles are on the practice of photography - for this photographic educational work he was awarded the Prix Louis Philippe Clerc by the French Ministry of Culture, and he is the world's leading author on photographic practice. Having been for many years responsible for the distance-learning courses on photography at the UK's Open College of the Arts, Freeman now runs a monthly online Photography Foundation Course at http://www.my-photo-school.com/course/michael-freemans-the-photographers-eye/

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  • Edward Allen
    5.0 de 5 estrellas The beauty of masonry vaulting
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 1 de noviembre de 2010
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    In this lovely book, MIT Professor John Ochsendorf chronicles the architectural legacy of Rafael Guastavino, who arrived in New York from Spain in 1861 and brought with him a technique for building vaults and domes without using formwork, from multiple laminations of flat ceramic tiles. His system was soon being used by the foremost architects of the time. His work is strong visually as well as physically, and ethereally beautiful. None of his many constructions has ever failed structurally, and most are still in service, as fresh and bright as the day they were completed.
    Ochsendorf's insightful writing about the technical virtuosity and business sense of the Guastavinos, father and son, is coupled with stunning color photographs by Michael Freeman that reveal for the first time th full glory of their aesthetic achievements. The author gives us delicious surprises throughout the book: In a 1900 poll of U.S. architects to designate the ten most beautiful building in the country, all but two employed Guastavino construction. The 70-foot dome he built for a church in Lowell, MA is proportionally half the thickness of an eggshell. The floor structure of Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion, though not by Guastavino, was spanned with a similar system that is totally out of character with the iconic building that it supports.
    This book is a must-read for architectural historians and structural engineers as well as anyone who appreciates beautifully crafted buildings. It is especially recommended to Manhattanites and Bostonians, who have easy access to hundreds of the Guastavino buildings listed in the appendix.
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  • Ed Saliklis
    5.0 de 5 estrellas An important and thought provoking book!
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 2 de noviembre de 2010
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    Prof. Ochsendorf has provided us with a book to treasure. It is a meticulously researched and carefully written account of a fascinating father and son team, the Guastavinos. The book starts with the Catalan origins of the laminated vaulting technique and the author shares his expertise with us as he draws from all the scholarship available on the Guastavinos while he tells the story of their designs and the impact they had on architecture in the United States. This book uses archival material from Avery Library to show us Guastavino's drawings, patents and some graphic statics as well. The photographs are stunning and make me want to visit all of these sites! Many people may have seen the Oyster Bar in Grand Central or the dome in St. John the Divine, but how many people knew about the miraculously thin masonry spiral staircases or fantastic crypts that are documented here?

    The author's excitement and enthusiasm are contagious and he has given us a wonderful book that is truly the definitive word on the subject. And that subject, the amazing Catalan vaults of the Guastavinos, is a story that every architect and structural engineer should know about!
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  • F. W. Riepe
    4.0 de 5 estrellas A unique and fascinating history
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 18 de enero de 2014
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    A valuable history with excellent photos and drawings which could have been better if there was more technical analysis. The technology was developed without the engineering analysis that is possible today and it is now obsolete. At least one building was torn down because it could not be shown that it met modern building codes. But the question remains: Is the technology viable in modern terms? There are no failures documented in this book, so one could argue that it is viable. But the book, by an MIT professor, leaves the question hanging.
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  • Charles Heckel
    5.0 de 5 estrellas Fascinating (if obsolete) building method beautifully illustrated
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 27 de noviembre de 2012
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    After seeing a PBS special on the Art Schools of Cuba, I Googled around and came upon this book. It's a treasure. Ochsendorf is a professor who lectures and gives hands-on workshops on building Guastavino vaulting, and there is enough detail given in the book to actually build such a vault, though it would be impractical in the U.S. for a number of reasons (also discussed). However, the pictures give the wonderful feel of architectural spaces defined in free-flowing tile, and there is a long list of existing structures, mostly in New York but scattered through the United States, that define an architectural tour for timbrel vaulting groupies who can't make it to Barcelona to see Gaudi's wonderful buildings.
    For the hands-on types, there is a Rhinoceros plug-in called RhinoVAULT that makes it possible to design funicular (compressive) structures using the Thrust-Network-Approach [...] and there are a number of sites showing modern timbrel vaults in short-term construction, and its use with earth blocks in the Third World [...]. What is old may yet be new again.
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  • James B. Garrison
    5.0 de 5 estrellas Very clear explanations
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 16 de noviembre de 2010
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    Guastavino vaulting is one of those magical construction assemblies that seems to defy gravity and easy explanation. How do you span great distances with a system that doesn't need formwork or heavy shoring and end up with something that is both beautiful and extremely strong? As a preservation architect, I have worked in and around Guastavino vaulting for many years, but never completely understood how it went together or it's full capabilities. John Ochsendorf, through his own hands on experience, describes how the system is designed and built. The father and son tile company changed from the largely empirical genius of the father to a more rigorous engineering basis, but ultimately more conventional (and cheaper) structural systems superseded Guastavino. The lucid text is beautifully complemented by new photography that captures the amazing spatial quality of the vaulted spaces.
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  • Kay W.
    5.0 de 5 estrellas A beautiful, informative book!
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 11 de febrero de 2021
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    As a fan of architecture, I was surprised to hear about Guastavino vaulting. I started searching the internet and came upon this book. I bought it as a Christmas present to myself. It is a wonderful book. Anyone interested in architecture should enjoy this book!
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    5.0 de 5 estrellas MUY INTERSANTE
    Calificado en España el 27 de febrero de 2017
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    GUASTAVINO VAULTING.
    Muy interesante para estudiantes y profesionales de arquitectura y arquitectura técnica.
    Bien editado y de fácil lectura.
    Recomendado también para historiadores del arte.
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  • Evrard Cédric
    2.0 de 5 estrellas La voûte catalane
    Calificado en Francia el 9 de agosto de 2014
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    Un ouvrage très étendu sur les détails de l'oeuvre de Guastavino, mais techniquement superficiel. J'espérai avoir plus d'information sur la voûte catalane et le How to.
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    5.0 de 5 estrellas Five Stars
    Calificado en Canadá el 8 de octubre de 2016
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    Magnificent
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