Mainstone: Developments Structural for - Softcover

Mainstone, Rowland J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262630885 ISBN 13: 9780262630887

Publisher: MIT Press, 1983

Synopsis

Encompassing buildings of the West, North Africa, and the Near East, from native construction to modern technology, "Developments in Structural Form "considers the physical principles of structures, the materials they are made of the ways in which they maybe built, and the history of man's involvement with them. Mainstone interweaves these approaches so deftly that the evolution of structural forms seems as natural and inevitable as the evolution of plants and animals

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Review

"This is a remarkable book, conceived in an original way and one which, so far as I know, has not been previously attempted .... Mainstone has a comprehensive knowledge of modern constructional techniques. He sees the same principles at work in the lintel of a megalith and a modern space-frame, in the metal cramps of a neoclassical church and the disposition of reinforcing bars in a concrete hangar. It is precisely this ability to; look back critically from the standpoint of a modern engineer to relatively primitive but often exceedingly complex types of structure that gives the book its value."- Sir John Summerson

About the Author

Rowland Mainstone is an honorary architect as well as being a civil and structural engineer. Though chiefly engaged for some 30 years in research into many aspects of the design of buildings and bridges today, he has also undertaken extensive studies of their earlier history. More recently he has been a consultant on the structural conservation of historic buildings and a visiting professor of architecture and structure at several universities in this country and abroad.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262630885
• ISBN 13: 9780262630887
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350