Developments In Structural Form
Language: English
Published by MIT Press, 1975
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Over-sized hardback book with dust jacket titled DEVELOPMENTS IN STRUCTURAL FORM by Rowland Mainstone. Published by M.I.T.Press in 1975 - first American edition. Illustrated with over 300 photographs and drawings. Price clipped dust jacket has moderate soiling/creases - shelf wear at edge of boards - three inch split top of inside front gutter. International shipping will require additional charge. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-BS-4-bottom) rareviewbooks Language: eng.
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- Title
- Developments In Structural Form
- Author
- Mainstone, R J
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication year
- 1975
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262131110
- ISBN 13
- 9780262131117
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
In this extensively revised and expanded new edition, the story is brought up to date with the incorporation of new insights and a full coverage of recent developments in both design and construction.
The book identifies features that distinguish the forms built by man from those shaped by nature and discusses the physical and other constraints on the choices that can be made. It then looks in turn at all the elementary forms - arches, domes, beams, slabs and the like - which combine into the more complex forms of complete structures, and at the different classes of the complete forms themselves. The development of each form is traced chronologically, but with an emphasis less on the chronology than on the problems that designers have continually faced in trying to serve new ends with limited means or to serve old ones in new ways. The book concludes with a chapter on the processes of design, showing how the designer's freedom of choice has been widened by a growing understanding of structural behaviour.
360 photographs and drawings, mostly original and prepared by the author himself, including over 100 that are new, accompany the richly imaged text.
Covers all aspects of structure providing the reader with a comprehensive text on the subject
Learn from the vast knowledge of this experienced author
Over 300 photographs and drawings make the book easy to comprehend
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Review
Sir John Summerson.
'This book should be an inspiration to all architects. . . (it) will become a classic in the history of conservation. . . a remarkable book. It must be studied.'
Sir Bernard Feilden
'Mainstone has been everywhere and seen everything. This is a book for architects, structural engineers and architectural historians - and also for anyone interested in the genesis of structural form.'
Architectural Research Quarterly
'It is a treat to have a second edition of such a treasured book.'
Tony Hunt, The Architectural Review
'No other single volume challenges this new edition of Mainstone as an informed and readable account of its fascinating subject.'
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