TENSILE ARCHITECTURE - Hardcover

Philip Drew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 025897012X ISBN 13: 9780258970126

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 1979

Synopsis

Growing interest in lightweight architecture has stimulated the construction of increasing numbers of membrane, cable, and cablenet structures. This "new" architecture and engineering may be regarded as a product of the need for mobility - it was, in fact, the invention of vehicles for quickly transporting people and goods that led to the new strong materials and advanced structural configurations that allow for the high performance, long span, and large spatial enclosure of today's structures. It is revealing that our modern structural requirements parallel, if they do not actually duplicate, those of nomadic societies. In this richly illustrated, well-researched survey, Philip Drew traces the continuous development of lightweight structures in architecture from early tent dwellings to recent manifestations. His historical perspective affords a view of the newest advances as one part of the long search to find more efficient methods of spanning. 9.5x10", xxii+237 pp., b&w photographs and illustrations.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 025897012X
• ISBN 13: 9780258970126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1