Stressing Wachsmann: Structures for a Future / Strukturen F?r Eine Zukunft [German]

by Ioa Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna

In 1951, Konrad Wachsmann and his department at the IIT received a commission from the US Air Force to investigate no less than a completely new method of construction based on the structural models he had already developed.

The iconographic model of the US Air Force Hangar developed from this work was a true "turning point in building" the structure designed represents an almost futurist promise of a fully industrialized building culture,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: German
• ISBN: 303561962X
• ISBN13: 9783035619621
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 384 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary