On Span and Space: Exploring Structures in Architecture - Softcover

Sandaker, Bjorn N.

 
9780415357920: On Span and Space: Exploring Structures in Architecture

Synopsis

In this richly illustrated book with many practical examples, Bjorn Sandaker provides readers with a better understanding of the relationship between technology and architecture.

As an experienced teacher and writer, Sandaker offers a well-founded aesthetic theory to support the understanding and evaluation of a structure's form and design, examining concepts and viewpoints from both the professions of engineering and architecture.

Comprehensively covering structure and aesthetics, this book is ideal for students, professionals and academics in the areas of architecture and building.

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About the Author

Bjørn Normann Sandaker is Professor of Architectural Technology at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design in Norway. For over twenty years he has specialized in the cross-over discipline of structural design in architecture, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in which structural mechanics are taught alongside studio work for architectural design.

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9780415357876: On Span and Space: Exploring Structures in Architecture

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ISBN 10:  041535787X ISBN 13:  9780415357876
Publisher: Routledge, 2007
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