Addis, Bill  <br/><br/>
Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction 

 - London  Phaidon Press  2005 
 - 460  22.23 x 3.49 x 24.77 cm 
<br/><br/>From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction, charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated volume, aimed at students and young professionals as well as general readers, explores the materials, classic texts, instruments, and theories that have propelled modern engineering, and the famous and not-so-famous buildings designed through the ages, from the Parthenon to Chartres Cathedral and the dome of St. Peter's, from eighteenth-century silk mills in England to the Crystal Palace, and on to the first Chicago high-rises, the Sydney Opera House, and the latest "green" skyscrapers. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780714869391 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Architecture<br/>Art<br/>Building<br/>Civil engineering<br/>Structural design<br/>Structural engineering<br/>Surveying
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>DSGN  / ADD