Is there a culture of construction? To answer this question, Tom Peters crosses the traditional boundaries between civil engineering and architecture to look at how builders' thought processes influenced construction and particularly how construction thinking changed in the last century. Engineering projects discussed include the first Thames tunnel project, the Mont Cenis Tunnel, the Conway and Britannia bridges, and the Suez and Panama Canals. 178 illustrations.
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Is there a culture of construction? To answer this question, Tom Peters crosses the traditional boundaries between civil engineering and architecture to look at how builders' thought processes influenced construction and particularly how construction thinking changed in the last century. Engineering projects discussed include the first Thames tunnel project, the Mont Cenis Tunnel, the Conway and Britannia bridges, and the Suez and Panama Canals. 178 illustrations.
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Fair. Obviously well-worn, but no text pages missing. May have highlighting and marginalia, but markings do not interfere with readability. Textbooks do not have accompanying CDs or access codes. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 535 p.
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VG-(Boards are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; DJ has light edgewear/sunning; smudging; textblock edges are lightly worn; interior is clean; binding is solid. ) Black cloth boards with silver lettering on the spine; blue & green illustrated DJ; xiv, 535 pp.; richly illustrated. "Is there a culture of construction? To answer this question, Tom Peters crosses the traditional boundaries between civil engineering and architecture to look at how builders' thought processes influenced construction, and particularly at how construction thinking changed, in the last century. The Sayn Foundry in Bendorf, a German town on the Rhine near the Dutch border, is a fascinating example of complex technological thinking. Although the structural detailing is typical of its period (1830), Prussian engineer and iron founder Karl Ludwig Althans used and varied the many architectural and engineering models at hand in a sophisticated and complex building with structural elements that can be read as advertisements, machine parts, religious forms, or simply as building elements. The foundry, which is still standing, is just one of the many projects Peters examines in this broad synthesis of nineteenth-century technological thought and methods of design that form the basis of the modern built world. Through such examples, he traces the growth of technological thinking as one of our culture's chief modes of thought and establishes its primacy over other forms such as scientific or humanistic thinking as the major component of building design. Both celebrated and little-known works of architecture and engineering illustrate the evolution of a modern building process that brought together technical achievements with aesthetic, social, and cultural concerns. These include the first Thames tunnel project, the Mount Cenis railway tunnel under the Alps, the Conway and Britannia bridges in Wales, the Suez Canal, Kew Palm House, the Crystal Palace, the Langwies Viaduct in Switzerland, and the Panama Canal."--Dustjacket.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book (xiv) 535 pages, numerous b/w illiustrations, notes, bibliography, index, 4to; black cloth. This book is in fine condition and has a near fine dust jacket.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x2x10; Gift inscription to half title page. Fading to D/J spine with some light indentations to front and rear D/J. Slight tanning to page edges.
