Technics and architecture
Subtitle: the development of materials and systems for buildings
By: Cecil D. Elliott.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
Subjects: Building -- History; Building materials -- History
Description: This illustrated history focuses on the technics of building form in Europe and North America from the Industrial Revolution to the 1990s. It surveys the ways in which new materials, methods and systems were discovered and tested and the ways in which they succeeded or failed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-456) and index.