Uncommon Structures, Unconventional Builders

Van Dine, Alan

ISBN 10: 1579121616 / ISBN 13: 9781579121617

Published by Black Dog & Leventhal, New York, 2001

About this Item

New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2001. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Gray cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. No price on jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean copy. Folio (approximately 15 inches tall), 206 pages, with rust-colored endpapers, glossy paper throughout, extensively illustrated in color and black-and-white. Includes credits and index. A visually striking survey of remarkable architectural feats and the unconventional builders behind them from ancient monuments like the Great Wall of China and Machu Picchu to eccentric modern structures written and compiled by Alan Van Dine.

Seller Inventory # 4700Q-Architecture-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Uncommon Structures, Unconventional Builders
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal, New York
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1579121616
• ISBN 13: 9781579121617
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

They are the most remarkable constructions in human history--from the Tower of Babel to China's Great Wall to Machu Picchu--but how and why did they come to be? Here are the answers, entertainingly explained.

UNCOMMON STRUCTURES contains the most amazing, mind-boggling constructions in history. This big, beautiful book features seventeen lively and detailed chronicles of our most ambitious and legendary building projects--the visions and ambition with which they were launched, and the many twists and turns they took as they came into being. Wide-ranging in scope, encompassing a myriad of cultures, time periods and building materials, this lush volume will fascinate general readers, but is substantive enough to hold the interest of architects and designers. Each section is enhanced by a full range of illustrations: color and black-and-white photography, historic drawings and plans, fine art, line art,--the gamut. These are stories of human (and in one case, animal) ingenuity and vision that have inspired and enlighten men and women through the ages.

About the Author

Alan Van Dine worked for Koppers, a major producer of architectural and engineering products. He originally wrote these stories as a series of booklets called Tagngents, conceived by the communications department of Koppers to speak to the building design profession as a whole, Koppers decided to adapt the series into an illustrated book.