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100			_aAddis, Bill
245		0	_aBuilding: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction
260			_aLondon _bPhaidon Press _c2005
300			_a460 _c22.23 x 3.49 x 24.77 cm _rPaperback
504			_aFrom 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.
650			_aArchitecture
650			_aArt
650			_aBuilding
650			_aCivil engineering
650			_aStructural design
650			_aStructural engineering
650			_aSurveying
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