| Components and Systems: Modular Construction Design, Structure, New Technologies Contributor(s): Staib, Gerald (Author), Dörrhöfer, Andreas (Author), Rosenthal, Markus (Author) |
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ISBN: 3764386568 ISBN-13: 9783764386566 Publisher: Birkhauser OUR PRICE: $113.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation - Architecture | Methods & Materials - Technology & Engineering | Construction - General |
| Dewey: 693 |
| LCCN: 2008278103 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 9.2" W x 11.8" (3.35 lbs) 239 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Construction systems reduced to the smallest possible number of identical elements have long been used by architects to build structures as well as dismantle and change them as quickly, efficiently, and economically as possible. Think of the architecture of the nomads, the Crystal Palace designed by the architect John Paxton for the London World's Fair of 1851, or the modern construction systems of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in steel, concrete, and wood. Coupled with modern digital planning and production methods, modular precast construction systems that are adaptable for many combinations and capable of being combined with one other will play an increasingly important role in architecture in the future. |