Framework Houses
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: March 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780262024990
Subjects: Individual photographers; Photographs: collections; Wood Construction; Technology; Photography; Photo Techniques; Architectural & Industrial; Photoessays & Documentaries; Photography / General; Construction - General; Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation; Germany; Pictorial works; Siegen Region; Wooden-frame houses
Description: "The Siegen industrial region is located in Germany some sixty miles east of Cologne. It is one of the oldest iron-producing regions of Europe. For a long time a law, passed in 1790, regulated the use of wood for building purposes intending to save wood, which, in the form of charcoal, was the energy base for iron-smelting.

Owing to this self-imposed restriction an ideal framework structure in housebuilding developed, eliminating all construction elements that served only ornamental purposes."--BOOK JACKET.