Why Buildings Stand Up The Strength of Architecture

Name: Why Buildings Stand Up The Strength of Architecture
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ISBN: 9780393306767

ISBN-10: 0393306763

ISBN-13: 9780393306767

Edition: 1980

Authors: Mario Salvadori, Saralinda Hooker, Christopher Ragus

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This text is aimed at the architectural student who needs to assimulate the application of engineering principles to architecture quickly and painlessly.

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 1980
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.61" wide x 9.17" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Structures


The Beginning of Architecture


Function and Structure


Architects and Engineers


Structure and the Layman



The Pyramids


What Are They?


The Building of the Pyramids


The Social Purpose of the Pyramids


The Death of the Pyramids



Loads


Dead Loads


Live Loads


Dynamic Loads


Wind Loads


Earthquake Loads


Thermal and Settlement Loads



Materials


Tension and Compression


Elasticity and Plasticity


Safety Factors


Steel


Reinforced Concrete


Plastics



Beams and Columns


Newton's Laws


Translational Equilibrium


Rotational Equilibrium


Beam Action


Shear


Buckling



Houses


Prehistoric and Historic Houses


The American House


Concrete-Frame Housing


Prefabricated Concrete Buildings



Skyscrapers


The High-Rise Building


The Birth of a Skyscraper


The Skyscraper Structure



The Eiffel Tower


The Symbol


The Builder of the Tower


The Building of the Tower


Cranes and Elevators


The Life of the Tower


The Taller Towers



Bridges


Arches


Railroad Bridges


Concrete Bridges


Space Frames



The Brooklyn Bridge


The Creator of the Bridge


The Construction of the Bridge


Modern Suspension Bridges



Form-Resistant Structures


Grids and Flat Slabs


Strength through Form


Curved Surfaces


Barrel Roofs and Folded Plates


Saddle Roofs


Complex Roofs


Thin Shell Dams



The Unfinished Cathedral


The Origin of the Gothic Cathedrals


Gothic Spaces and Structures


Saint Pierre at Beauvais



Domes


The Largest Roofs in the World


The Dome as Structure


The Pantheon


Santa Maria del Fiore


Modern Domes



Hagia Sophia


The Construction of the Church


The Interior of the Church


The Structure of the Church


The Fate of Hagia Sophia



Tents and Balloons


Tents


Pneumatic Structures



The Hanging Sky


Domes and Dishes


The Hanging Dish



The Message of Structure


Semiotic Messages


Semiotic Message and Scale


The Varying Semiotic Message


Afterword


Index