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stormdogMy brief review on Library Thing of Mario Salvadori's "Why Buildings Stand Up: the Strength of Architecture."
This had a lot of great information for someone like me; an interested layperson with no professional design training. The style is a classic sort of stuffy academic prose, and in places goes on at unnecessary length about how much of a genius someone was (the paragraph-plus extolling the mind of Gustave Eiffel being a good example), but it's certainly informative and engaging if I put that aside.
I did feel like a lot of what was here was similar to Edward Allen's (no relation!) book, How Buildings Work: The Strength of Architecture, which I read recently. Allen was rather broader in range of topics, and Salvadori more in depth in examining structural design theory and specific historical and modern buildings. It was worth a read, for sure.
basefinder, this book was written in 1980 and the author is quite excited and optimistic about the future of thin shell concrete construction! You might find that portion in particular interesting.
This had a lot of great information for someone like me; an interested layperson with no professional design training. The style is a classic sort of stuffy academic prose, and in places goes on at unnecessary length about how much of a genius someone was (the paragraph-plus extolling the mind of Gustave Eiffel being a good example), but it's certainly informative and engaging if I put that aside.
I did feel like a lot of what was here was similar to Edward Allen's (no relation!) book, How Buildings Work: The Strength of Architecture, which I read recently. Allen was rather broader in range of topics, and Salvadori more in depth in examining structural design theory and specific historical and modern buildings. It was worth a read, for sure.
basefinder, this book was written in 1980 and the author is quite excited and optimistic about the future of thin shell concrete construction! You might find that portion in particular interesting.
