出版社: Phaidon Press Ltd; Reprint (2014年5月25日)
平装: 640页
语种： 英语
条形码: 9780714869391
商品尺寸: 22.2 x 3.2 x 24.8 cm
从埃及到古希腊与罗马，从圆顶建筑到哥特式时期与文艺复兴时期，从工业革命到当今的数码时代的模型，3000年的建筑设计，工业与构造列明了在工程与建筑构造的几千年的创新。本书丰富的内容针对学生与年轻专业人士还有普通的读者探究了推动当代工程发展一些关于材料，经典的构造，工具与理论。还有一些出名与不出名经历了几个世纪的建筑从希腊神庙到天主教堂和圣彼得的圆顶建筑，从18世纪在英国的丝绸磨坊到水晶宫殿，以及悉尼歌剧院和最近的绿色摩天大楼。。。
本书聚焦在17与18世纪的工业与科学革命的发展。还有相关的文字介绍，同时也有经典的文章，对于每个建筑的故事讲述，还有简单的历史介绍。
是一本关于工程设计与西方从古埃及开始到现在的创新历史的陈述；
涵盖的主题包括了工程设计，技术，材料，论述，草图，测量等；
涵盖了800多张图片包含了草图，图表等详细稀有的材料
适合学生，年轻的建筑师，工程师等人。
William Addis is a consulting engineer at Buro Happold in London and the author of numerous books, academic papers, and book reviews on construction history published over the past 25 years. He holds a doctorate degree in the history and philosophy of engineering from the University of Reading, where he taught this subject for 15 years; he has also delivered lecture courses on engineering history at Cambridge University, the University of Bath, and University College, London. In 1998, he helped curate the exhibition "The Art of the Engineer" at the Pompidou Centre in Paris and contributed to the book that accompanied the exhibition. Addis is an active member of the Institution of Structural Engineers' History Study Group and lectures at professional conferences around the world.
