Why Buildings Stand Up
Subtitle: The Strength of Architecture
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: February 18, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780393306767
First sentence: Compared to other human activities, architecture is a young art that had its beginnings only 10,000 years ago when men and women, having discovered agriculture and husbandry, were able to give up roaming the surface of the earth in search of food.
Table of contents: label: 1. Structures
title: 17; label: 2. The Pyramids
title: 27; label: 3. Loads
title: 43; label: 4. Materials
title: 59; label: 5. Beams and Columns
title: 72; label: 6. Houses
title: 90; label: 7. Skyscrapers
title: 107; label: 8. The Eiffel Tower
title: 126; label: 9. Bridges
title: 144; label: 10. The Brooklyn Bridge
title: 165; label: 11. Form-Resistant Structures
title: 179; label: 12. The Unfinished Cathedral
title: 206; label: 13. Domes
title: 225; label: 14. Hagia Sophia
title: 246; label: 15. Tents and Balloons
title: 259; label: 16. The Hanging Sky
title: 278; label: 17. The Message of Structure
title: 288; label: Afterword
title: 303; label: Index
title: 315