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Since it's origins in the muddy fields machines, the airport has become one of the defining institutions of modern life. In "Naked airport : a cultural history of the world's most revolutionary structure", critic Alastair Gordon traces the structure's history and architecture and explores its farreaching effect on our culture.
Naked airport : a cultural history of the world's most revolutionary structure
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Since it's origins in the muddy fields machines, the airport has become one of the defining institutions of modern life. In "Naked airport : a cultural history of the world's most revolutionary structure", critic Alastair Gordon traces the structure's history and architecture and explores its farreaching effect on our culture.
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July 2004, New York
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Structure as space
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This publication focuses on the work of the Swiss engineer Jürg Conzett, who has contributed more than most to redefining the role of structural engineering and its relation to architecture.
Structure as space
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This publication focuses on the work of the Swiss engineer Jürg Conzett, who has contributed more than most to redefining the role of structural engineering and its relation to architecture.
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April 2005, London
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Territoire d'usines
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Territoire d'usines est un ouvrage de synthèse, qui présente les résultats des recherches historiques et architectureale, menées par Cécile Katz sur le patrimoine industriel.
Territoire d'usines
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Territoire d'usines est un ouvrage de synthèse, qui présente les résultats des recherches historiques et architectureale, menées par Cécile Katz sur le patrimoine industriel.
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"Portraits d'industries" retrace l'histoire économique et sociale d'une ville portuaire confrontée aux évolutions techniques et politiques des XIXe et XXe siècles. L'ouvrage présente un large choix de documents et objets relatifs aux différents domaines abordés: bâtiments industriels, machines et outils de production, photographies...
Portraits d'industries : collections du musée d'Histoire de Marseille, XIXe-XX siècles
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"Portraits d'industries" retrace l'histoire économique et sociale d'une ville portuaire confrontée aux évolutions techniques et politiques des XIXe et XXe siècles. L'ouvrage présente un large choix de documents et objets relatifs aux différents domaines abordés: bâtiments industriels, machines et outils de production, photographies...
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Light structures
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When today's leading architects - such as Frank O. Gehry, Helmut Jahn, and the THINK team - are looking for engineers to provide structural viability for their aesthetic visions, they often turn to Jörg Schlaich and his partner Rudolf Bergermann. Their work is distinguished by a holistic approach combining science, practicality, and meticulous attention to detail with(...)
Engineering Structures
November 2003, Munich
Light structures
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When today's leading architects - such as Frank O. Gehry, Helmut Jahn, and the THINK team - are looking for engineers to provide structural viability for their aesthetic visions, they often turn to Jörg Schlaich and his partner Rudolf Bergermann. Their work is distinguished by a holistic approach combining science, practicality, and meticulous attention to detail with environmental and situational concerns. This retrospective of their work highlights Schlaich and Bergermann's independent projects, including towers, bridges, wind farms, and swimming pools. It features nine critical and biographical essays as well as detailed examinations of their most impressive work, illustrating a triumphant alliance of technical and architectural goals.
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This publication documents the impact that elevators, escalators and moving walkways have had on the urban landscape, building types and culture worldwide. The mid-nineteenth-century invention of the elevator safety break, in conjunction with other developments such as the steel frame, facilitated the construction of the skyscraper and so helped to transform the(...)
Up, down, across : elevators, escalators, and moving sidewalks
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This publication documents the impact that elevators, escalators and moving walkways have had on the urban landscape, building types and culture worldwide. The mid-nineteenth-century invention of the elevator safety break, in conjunction with other developments such as the steel frame, facilitated the construction of the skyscraper and so helped to transform the appearance of our cities and the places in which many of us live and work. The turn-of-the-century inventions of the escalator and the moving sidewalk have left their indelible mark on railway stations, airports, retail spaces, hotels, offices, factories and elsewhere. "Up, down, across" makes a long-overdue and valuable addition to urban and architectural studies and cultural history.
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September 2003, London
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The rational factory : architecture, technology, and work in America's age of mass production
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Searching for a "rational" workplace, turn-of-the-century engineers and industrial architects recast the factory itself in the image of the machine. Indeed, they considered the factory building the "master machine," containing and coordinating all of the machinery within. Such rational factory planning improved production speed and the management of workers. Once(...)
The rational factory : architecture, technology, and work in America's age of mass production
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Searching for a "rational" workplace, turn-of-the-century engineers and industrial architects recast the factory itself in the image of the machine. Indeed, they considered the factory building the "master machine," containing and coordinating all of the machinery within. Such rational factory planning improved production speed and the management of workers. Once created, the rational factory transformed the nature of work, both human and mechanical. In "The rational factory", Lindy Biggs contends that factory design played a crucial role in the development of American mass production. Her interdisciplinary study draws from the fields of business history, engineering, technology, architecture, and theories of modernity. Why did some people want to rationalize the factory, she asks, and how did the system impact those who worked under it?
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It was 1976--twenty-five years after R. Buckminster Fuller introduced geodesic domes when literary critic Hugh Kenner published this fully-illustrated practical manual for their construction. Now, some twenty-five years later, "Geodesic math and how to sse it" again presents a systematic method of design and provides a step-by-step method for producing mathematical(...)
Geodesic math and how to use it
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It was 1976--twenty-five years after R. Buckminster Fuller introduced geodesic domes when literary critic Hugh Kenner published this fully-illustrated practical manual for their construction. Now, some twenty-five years later, "Geodesic math and how to sse it" again presents a systematic method of design and provides a step-by-step method for producing mathematical specifications for orthodox geodesic domes, as well as for a variety of elliptical, super-elliptical, and other nonspherical contours. Out of print since 1990, this edition is fully illustrated with complete original appendices.
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Ce guide recense les sites que l'on peut voir ou visiter facilement à Paris et en proche banlieue. Il explore l'évolution des formes et des matériaux - pierre de taille, brique, métal, meulière, béton armé, verre... - et témoigne de la beauté de ces lieux de production, parfois conçus par les meilleurs architectes.
Architecture industrielle : Paris & alentours
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Ce guide recense les sites que l'on peut voir ou visiter facilement à Paris et en proche banlieue. Il explore l'évolution des formes et des matériaux - pierre de taille, brique, métal, meulière, béton armé, verre... - et témoigne de la beauté de ces lieux de production, parfois conçus par les meilleurs architectes.
Engineering Structures
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In "Why Things Break," Mark E. Eberhart leads us on a remarkable and entertaining exploration of all the cracks, clefts, fissures, and faults examined in the field of materials science and the many astonishing discoveries that have been made about everything from the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger to the crashing of your hard drive. Understanding why things(...)
Why things break : understanding the world by the way it comes apart
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In "Why Things Break," Mark E. Eberhart leads us on a remarkable and entertaining exploration of all the cracks, clefts, fissures, and faults examined in the field of materials science and the many astonishing discoveries that have been made about everything from the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger to the crashing of your hard drive. Understanding why things break is crucial to modern life on every level, from personal safety to macroeconomics, but as Eberhart reveals here, it is also an area of cutting-edge science that is as provocative as it is illuminating.
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