Constructing Building Enclosures: Architectural History, Technology and Poetics in the Postwar Era

Book Overview

Constructing Building Enclosures investigates and interrogates tensions that arose between the disciplines of architecture and engineering as they wrestled with technology and building cultures that evolved to deliver structures in the modern era. At the center of this history are inventive architects, engineers and projects that did not settle for conventional solutions, technologies and methods.

Comprised of thirteen original essays by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367276259
• ISBN13: 9780367276256
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"