This book examines the structural and construction design of buildings. The first part presents an overview of materials and structural forms taking the point o

This book examines the structural and construction design of buildings. The first part presents an overview of materials and structural forms taking the point o

In an era of brash, expensive, provocative new buildings, a prominent critic argues that emotions—such as hope, power, sex, and our changing relationship to t

Hubsch's argument that the technical progress and changed living habits of the nineteenth century rendered neoclassical principles antiquated is presented here

The construction trades once provided unionized craftsmen a route to the middle class and a sense of pride and dignity often denied other blue-collar workers. T