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Technics and architecture

Cecil D. Elliott

1992467 pagesabout 7–11 hours
1992
first published
  • 1992MIT Press · 467 pages · ENGISBN 9780262050456
  • 1994MIT Press · 467 pages · ENGISBN 9780262550246
  • 1994MIT Press · 467 pages · ENG

This illustrated history focuses on the technics of building form in Europe and North America from the Industrial Revolution to the 1990s. It surveys the ways in which new materials, methods and systems were discovered and tested and the ways in which they succeeded or failed.

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