Light, Wind and Structure The Mystery of the Master Builders

Name: Light, Wind and Structure The Mystery of the Master Builders
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ISBN: 9780070404038

ISBN-10: 0070404038

ISBN-13: 9780070404038

Edition: 1st 1990

Authors: Robert Mark

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Robert Mark plumbs the mystery of the great buildings of ancient Rome, the High Gothic era, and the Renaissance, revealing the astonishing depth of knowledge the ancient builders possessed. His findings provide a stronger technological focus for architectural history and a basis for more rational criticism of contemporary design.

Book details

Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 209

Series Foreword
Preface
Problems of Technological Interpretation in Historic Architecture	p. 3
The Technology of Light, Wind, and Structure	p. 19
Reinterpreting Ancient Roman Structure	p. 49
Structural Experimentation in High Gothic Architecture	p. 91
Christopher Wren, Seventeenth-Century Science, and Great Renaissance Domes	p. 137
The Technological Legacy of Historic Architecture	p. 169
Notes	p. 183
Glossary	p. 201
Index	p. 205
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