Engineering a New Architecture

Name: Engineering a New Architecture
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ISBN: 9780300061161

ISBN-10: 0300061161

ISBN-13: 9780300061161

Edition: 1996

Authors: Tony Robbin, Stuart Wrede

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Engineering a New Architecture is based on the author's contention that engineering is the unrecognised avant-garde in architectural design, where new materials create new aesthetic principles.

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 4/24/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 150
Size: 8.25" wide x 11.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Membranes	p. 8
Tensegrity	p. 25
Deployable Structures	p. 38
Shells	p. 58
Hybrids	p. 70
Structural Morphology	p. 81
Materials	p. 100
Construction Versus Architecture	p. 116
Notes	p. 119
Select Bibliography	p. 127
Index	p. 135
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