Wooden Domes

Wooden Domes
Author: Barbara Misztal
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2017-11-20
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319657410

This monograph presents a state-of-the-art analysis of eco-friendly and aesthetic structures in wooden dome construction. The author demonstrates that the further development of wooden structures depends on both supplementing the testing of wood as a heterogeneous material, as well as on further improvement of fibrous structures with visco-elastic properties. The target audience primarily comprises research experts and practitioners in the field of building materials who are interested in innovative architecture.

Simple Shelters

Simple Shelters
Author: Jonathan Horning
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2009-11-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 080271773X

A brief introduction to the construction and history of basic shelters. Shelter is one of our most basic needs, and throughout history mankind has been highly inventive in meeting it. Simple Shelters introduces the principal types of wooden and stick-frame structures built around the world, examining how their shape and form reflect cultural and cosmological considerations as well as climatic and utilitarian needs. Charting the gradual shift from the circular homes of the nomads to the rectangular ones favored by settled people, Jonathan Horning explores materials and construction principles over millennia, including the geodesic experiments of the twentieth century.

Indian Antiquary

Indian Antiquary
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 422
Release: 1922
Genre: English periodicals
ISBN:

"At a time when each Society had its own medium of propogation of its researches ... in the form of Transactions, Proceedings, Journals, etc., a need was strongly felt for bringing out a journal devoted exclusively to the study and advancement of Indian culture in all its aspects. [This] encouraged Jas Burgess to launch the 'Indian antiquary' in 1872. The scope ... was in his own words 'as wide as possible' incorporating manners and customs, arts, mythology, feasts, festivals and rites, antiquities and the history of India ... Another laudable aim was to present the readers abstracts of the most recent researches of scholars in India and the West ... 'Indian antiquary' also dealt with local legends, folklore, proverbs, etc. In short 'Indian antiquary' was ... entirely devoted to the study of MAN - the Indian - in all spheres ..."--Introduction to facsimile volumes, published 1985

The Modern Dome

The Modern Dome
Author: Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 22
Release: 1897
Genre: Domes
ISBN:

Architect

Architect
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1266
Release: 1914
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: