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Islamic Architecture In Cairo: An Introduction Publisher: American University in Cairo Press | ISBN: 9774242033 | edition 1996 | PDF | 175 pages | 29,8 mb Combining an analysis of Cairo’s urban growth from the Islamic conquest up to the reign of Muhammad ‘Ali, an overview of its main architectural styles, a descriptive catalog of [...]
Sukhen Chatterjee, “The Design of Modern Steel Bridges” Wiley-Blackwell | 2003 | ISBN: 0632055111 | 224 pages | PDF | 2,2 MB Bridges are great symbols of mankind’s conquest of space. They are a monument to his vision and determination, but these alone are not enough. An appreciation of the mathematical theories underlying bridge design [...]
Michael F. McGuire, “Stainless Steels for Design Engineers” ASM International | 2008 | ISBN: 0871707179 | 225 pages | PDF | 3,9 MB This book contains everything engineers and designers need to make sound technical judgments about which stainless steels to use and how to use them. Extensive composition and property information on all five [...]
An Architecture of the Ozarks: The Works of Marlon Blackwell Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press | ISBN: 156898488X | edition 2005 | PDF | 176 pages | 17,8 mb I live, practice, teach, and build in northwest Arkansas, in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It’s a place considered to be in the middle of nowhere, [...]
Putting Loafing Streams To Work: The Building of Lay, Mitchell, Martin, and Jordan Dams, 1910-1929 Publisher: University Alabama Press | pages: 280 | 1997 | ISBN: 081730889X | PDF | 12 mb This is the story of the human effort that went into completing one of the most complex feats of engineering in Alabama history [...]
Start Exploring Architecture: A Fact-Filled Coloring Book Publisher: Running Press | ISBN: 156138237X | edition 1993 | CHM | 128 pages | 11,4 mb Descriptive, informative text, written expressly for children, accompany 64 ready-to-color illustrations of famous buildings and structures from around the world. Crayons, markers, or colored pencils are the only tools budding architects [...]
UN-HABITAT, “The State of the World’s Cities 2008/9: Harmonious Cities” Earthscan Publications Ltd. | 2008 | ISBN: 1844076954 | 282 pages | PDF | 37,5 MB The world’s urban population now exceeds the world’s rural population. But with the concomitant strain this will place upon current urban infrastructures, what does this mean for the state [...]
The Four Books on Architecture Publisher: The MIT Press | pages: 436 | 1997 | ISBN: 0262161621 | CHM | 21,7 mb Perhaps the most influential practitioner in the history of Western architecture and one of the earliest neoclassicists, Palladio created a singular corpus of architecture, the legacy of which is seen and felt in [...]
Colin O’Connor & Peter A. Shaw “Bridge Loads” Published by Taylor & Francis | Publication date : October 2000 | ISBN : 0419246002 | PDF | 359 pages | English | 6.0 MB This book provides a detailed summary of bridge loads from an international perspective. The authors cover all aspects from the methodology behind [...]
E. Darling, “Re-forming Britian: Narratives of Modernity Before Reconstruction” Publisher: Routledge | 2006 | ISBN 0415334071 | PDF | 275 pages | 5.24 MB With unprecedented depth in this important subject, this book examines architectural modernism in Britain through the 1930s not only as an architectural ideology but as part of a wider modernist movement [...]