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Terms and conditions applyBuilding the Future: Building Technology and Cultural History from the Industrial Revolution until Today
Ulrich Pfammatter
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Format: Book
Pages: 336
Publisher: Prestel
Date Published: May 2008
Stock Code: 64947
ISBN: 9783791339269
Binding: Hardback
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Spanning the last two centuries - and offering cogent analyses of how we will build in the future - this volume presents over one hundred case studies of built structures that illustrate the marriage of building technology and culture. Including color photographs, drawings, and architectural plans, this book profiles some of the world's most interesting public spaces, commercial buildings, stadiums, and transport stations to reveal how prevailing social mores helped determine these structures materials, appearance, and function. The innovative concepts these buildings signify and the integration of these ideas into the common lexicon are presented in chapters on the evolution of the greenhouse, artistic buildings, pioneering techniques in materials use, the development of the building facade, and the future of sustainable building design. This book uniquely blends a societal perspective with the latest technology.
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