

An edition of Technics and architecture (1992)
development of materials and systems for building
By Cecil D. Elliott
Publish Date
1994
Publisher
MIT Press
Language
eng
Pages
467
Description:
This illustrated history focuses on the technics of building form in Europe and North America from the Industrial Revolution to the 1990s. It surveys the ways in which new materials, methods and systems were discovered and tested and the ways in which they succeeded or failed.