Building: The Fight Against Gravity

by Mario Salvadori

Book Overview

An introduction to the basic principles of architecture and engineering including a discussion of structural materials and their properties and such problems as how skyscrapers are kept from swaying... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689501447
• ISBN13: 9780689501449
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Perfect introduction at the structural problem

In this book the structural problems are discussed in a simple and fun mode. It is perfect for the ungraduate student of architecture. I think it could be put again in print.