Main entry:

Pfammatter, Ulrich.

Title & Author:

Building the future : building technology and cultural history from the Industrial Revolution until today / Ulrich Pfammatter ; [translated from the German by Jeremy Gaines and James Roderick O'Donovan].

Publication:

Munich ; New York : Prestel, ©2008.

Description:

325 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 29 cm

Notes:
Translation of: In die Zukunft gebaut.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317) and index.
From greenhouse to 'high-tech' hothouse' -- virtual experience space of industrial and communicative societies -- Building as an art or the art of building? Railway sheds, expo pavilions, terminals -- spatial landscapes of the future -- How concrete became lighter -- 100 years of concrete pioneers -- The 'liberated facade' -- from wall to partition to skin -- Process thinking conquers construction -- industrialisation from the balloon frame to the skyscraper -- "Sustainable building design" -- a future project -- Sir Ove Arup: the key search, 1970.
Translated from the German.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"How have innovations in architecture and engineering come about? Who tested new approaches and when were important discoveries and experiments accepted? This book illuminates the history and development of building, in all its constructive, technical and cultural aspects, from the Industrial Revolution to the present and into the future. One hundred case scenarios articulate how new ideas, their context and ideology, became integral parts of the build environment. It also discusses which technical and creative mediums the pioneers and protagonists of the various trends and schools of thought used to articulate their ideas. The insightful texts and numerous images make this volume an essential handbook of architectural and structural history for students and professionals."--Jacket

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

3791339265
9783791339269 (hbk.)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern Technological innovations History.
Building Technological innovations History.
Building materials Technological innovations History.
Construction Innovations Histoire.
Construction Matériaux Innovations Histoire.
Building materials Technological innovations.
Building Technological innovations.
Architektur Innovation Geschichte 1780-2005 Bildband.
Innovation Architektur Geschichte 1780-2005 Bildband.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Gaines, Jeremy, translator.
O'Donovan, James Roderick, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 260281
Call No.: BIB 191194
Status: Available