Why buildings stand up :
Salvadori, Mario George.
Why buildings stand up : the strength of architecture / Mario Salvadori ; illustrations by Saralinda Hooker and Christopher Ragus. - New York : Norton, 1990. - 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index. "First published as a Norton paperback 1990"
Structures -- The pyramids -- Loads -- Materials -- Beams and columns -- Houses -- Skyscrapers -- The Eiffel Tower -- Bridges -- The Brooklyn Bridge -- Form-resistant structures -- The unfinished cathedral -- Domes -- Hagia Sophia -- Tents and balloons -- The hanging sky -- The message of struture.
0393306763
Structural engineering
TA633
Why buildings stand up : the strength of architecture / Mario Salvadori ; illustrations by Saralinda Hooker and Christopher Ragus. - New York : Norton, 1990. - 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index. "First published as a Norton paperback 1990"
Structures -- The pyramids -- Loads -- Materials -- Beams and columns -- Houses -- Skyscrapers -- The Eiffel Tower -- Bridges -- The Brooklyn Bridge -- Form-resistant structures -- The unfinished cathedral -- Domes -- Hagia Sophia -- Tents and balloons -- The hanging sky -- The message of struture.
0393306763
Structural engineering
TA633