Книга: Bill Addis «Building: 3000 Years of Design, Engineering and Construction»

Building: 3000 Years of Design, Engineering and Construction

Производитель: "Phaidon Press"

Building: 3000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction traces the history of modern building engineering in the Western world from ancient times to the present, bringing to life the key people, buildings, and concepts that have influenced engineering and architecture over the millennia. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated volume documents the classic texts, instruments, materials, and theories that have propelled modern engineering, and the famous and not-so-famous buildings that have resulted through the ages, from the Parthenon to Chartres Cathedral and the dome of St Peter`s, from eighteenth-century silk and cotton mills in England to the Crystal Palace, and from the first Chicago high-rises to the Sydney Opera House and the green skyscrapers of today. ISBN:978-0-7148-4146-5

Издательство: "Phaidon Press" (2008)

ISBN: 978-0-7148-4146-5

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