Building
Subtitle: the fight against gravity
By: Mario Salvadori : drawings by Saralinda Hooker and Christopher Ragus.
Contributors: Hooker, Saralinda.; Ragus, Christopher.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atheneum
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Structural analysis (Engineering) -- Juvenile literature.; Building materials -- Juvenile literature.; Structural analysis (Engineering); Building materials.
Description: An introduction to the basic principles of architecture and engineering including a discussion of structural materials and their properties and such problems as how skyscrapers are kept from swaying excessively and buildings prevented from sinking into the ground.
Notes: "A Margaret K. McElderry book."
Includes index.