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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Mit Pr
Publication date
May 1, 1992
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780262050456
ISBN-10
0262050455
Dimensions
1 by 8.25 by 11.25 in.
Weight
3.80 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$85.00
Other format details
university press
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§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: In this richly illustrated history Cecil Elliott focuses on a neglected aspect of architecture, the tecnics of building form. Concentrating on developments in Europe and North America from the Industrial Revolution to the present, he surveys the ways in which new materials, methods, and systems were discovered and tested, and the ways in which they succeeded or failed.
Elliott tells the story in two parts, first covering materials - in chapters on wood, masonry, terracotta, iron and steel, glass, cement, and reinforced concrete - and then systems - including lightning protection, sanitation, lighting, heating, air conditioning, elevators and escalators, fire protection, structural engineering, and acoustics. Each chapter begins with a review of the relevant classical and medieval technology, then focuses on developments over the past two centuries, including related business, political, scientific, or social events where these impinge on development or usage.
Technics and Architecture brings together information on a broad range of building materials and systems not found in any existing publication. It identifies the principles underlying technical advances in the building arts, pointing out that significant innovations have depended largely on the discovery of new approaches to the problems rather than the polishing of old mechanisms or handcraft methods; that in most cases advances were more rapid when the urgency of development was imposed by uses outside the application of a material or system in buildings; and that the extent of improvements has been extremely uneven.
Throughout, Elliott observes that at any specific time a variety of solutions are used simultaneously, according to industrial conditions and economic factors. This being a human activity, he notes, failures, equivocation, misjudgment, and vainglorious acts also play a part.
Cecil D. Elliott is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at North Dakota State University.
Elliott tells the story in two parts, first covering materials - in chapters on wood, masonry, terracotta, iron and steel, glass, cement, and reinforced concrete - and then systems - including lightning protection, sanitation, lighting, heating, air conditioning, elevators and escalators, fire protection, structural engineering, and acoustics. Each chapter begins with a review of the relevant classical and medieval technology, then focuses on developments over the past two centuries, including related business, political, scientific, or social events where these impinge on development or usage.
Technics and Architecture brings together information on a broad range of building materials and systems not found in any existing publication. It identifies the principles underlying technical advances in the building arts, pointing out that significant innovations have depended largely on the discovery of new approaches to the problems rather than the polishing of old mechanisms or handcraft methods; that in most cases advances were more rapid when the urgency of development was imposed by uses outside the application of a material or system in buildings; and that the extent of improvements has been extremely uneven.
Throughout, Elliott observes that at any specific time a variety of solutions are used simultaneously, according to industrial conditions and economic factors. This being a human activity, he notes, failures, equivocation, misjudgment, and vainglorious acts also play a part.
Cecil D. Elliott is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at North Dakota State University.
Editions
Editions for the work Technics and Architecture: The Development of Materials and Systems for Buildings
Hardcover
The price comparison is for this edition
With Dick Porter, Kris Needs |
from Mit Pr (May 1, 1992)
9780262050456 | details & prices | 8.25 × 11.25 × 1.00 in. | 3.80 lbs | List price $85.00
This edition also contains Blondie: Parallel Lines
About: In this richly illustrated history Cecil Elliott focuses on a neglected aspect of architecture, the tecnics of building form.
This edition also contains Blondie: Parallel Lines
About: In this richly illustrated history Cecil Elliott focuses on a neglected aspect of architecture, the tecnics of building form.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Mit Pr (October 1, 1994)
9780262550246 | details & prices | 8.00 × 11.00 × 1.25 in. | 3.15 lbs | List price $34.95
Editions for the work Blondie: Parallel Lines
Hardcover
With Dick Porter |
from Omnibus Pr (September 1, 2012)
9781780381299 | details & prices | 341 pages | 6.75 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.65 lbs | List price $28.95
About: Drawing upon extensive new first hand interview material from Debbie Harry, Chris Stein and many other significant players in the bandâs long history and a huge archive of personal materials and unpublished interviews, Blondie: Parallel Lines is the definitive eye-witness account of the groupâs long and often tumultuous existence.
About: Drawing upon extensive new first hand interview material from Debbie Harry, Chris Stein and many other significant players in the bandâs long history and a huge archive of personal materials and unpublished interviews, Blondie: Parallel Lines is the definitive eye-witness account of the groupâs long and often tumultuous existence.
The price comparison is for this edition
With Dick Porter, Cecil D. Elliott |
from Mit Pr (May 1, 1992); titled "Technics and Architecture: The Development of Materials and Systems for Buildings"
9780262050456 | details & prices | 8.25 × 11.25 × 1.00 in. | 3.80 lbs | List price $85.00
This edition also contains Technics and Architecture: The Development of Materials and Systems for Buildings
About: In this richly illustrated history Cecil Elliott focuses on a neglected aspect of architecture, the tecnics of building form.
This edition also contains Technics and Architecture: The Development of Materials and Systems for Buildings
About: In this richly illustrated history Cecil Elliott focuses on a neglected aspect of architecture, the tecnics of building form.
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