Building the future : building technology and cultural history from the Industrial Revolution until today / Ulrich Pfammatter ; [translated from the German by Jeremy Gaines and James Roderick O'Donovan].
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Munich ; New York : Prestel, [2008]Copyright date: c2008Description: 325 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 3791339265
- 9783791339269
- In die Zukunft gebaut. English
- 720.9 22 PFA
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Book - Borrowing | Central Library Second Floor | Alahram | 720.9 PFA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 383 | Available | 000016480 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From greenhouse to 'high-tech' hothouse' - virtual experience space of industrial and communicative societies -- Building as an art or the art of building? Railway sheds, expo pavilions, terminals - spatial landscapes of the future -- How concrete became lighter - 100 years of concrete pioneers -- The 'liberated facade' - from wall to partition to skin -- Process thinking conquers construction - industrialisation from the balloon frame to the skyscraper -- "Sustainable building design" - a future project -- Sir Ove Arup: the key search, 1970.
Text in English ; translated from the original German.
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