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Author : Joyce Brown
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Download or read book Studies in the History of Civil Engineering: The engineering of medieval cathedrals written by Joyce Brown and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lynn Courtenay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351890697
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Engineering of Medieval Cathedrals written by Lynn Courtenay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great cathedrals and churches of the medieval West continue to awe. How were they built, and why do they remain standing? What did their builders know about what they were doing? These questions have given rise to considerable controversy, which is fully reflected in the papers selected here. The first section of the book is concerned with the medieval builders and their design methods; the second focuses on engineering issues in the context of the infamous collapse of the choir at Beauvais in 1284. The following papers extend the analysis into the 15th century, looking for example at Brunelleschi’s dome for Florence Cathedral, and deal with the often neglected structures of roofs, towers and spires.
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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138268067
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Engineering of Medieval Cathedrals written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great cathedrals and churches of the medieval West continue to awe. How were they built, and why do they remain standing? What did their builders know about what they were doing? These questions have given rise to considerable controversy, which is fully reflected in the papers selected here. The first section of the book is concerned with the medieval builders and their design methods; the second focuses on engineering issues in the context of the infamous collapse of the choir at Beauvais in 1284. The following papers extend the analysis into the 15th century, looking for example at Brunelleschi's dome for Florence Cathedral, and deal with the often neglected structures of roofs, towers and spires.
Author : Joyce Brown
Publisher : Ashgate Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780754606543
Total Pages : 4982 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Studies in the History of Civil Engineering written by Joyce Brown and published by Ashgate Pub Limited. This book was released on 2001-05-28 with total page 4982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From dams to cathedrals, from water supply to transport systems, and from land drainage to the design and construction of ever larger and more monumental buildings, the impact of civil engineering on human history has been immense. This series sets out to examine key aspects of its history, from antiquity to the early 20th century. Each volume focuses on a particular topic, edited by an expert in that field, and opens with a substantial new introduction. They reprint a selection of papers which have proved of particular importance, and which exemplify the current state of knowledge and the historiography. The series constitutes an authoritative reference library, not just for those interested in the history of civil engineering, but also those studying economic history and the history of science and, above all, of architecture.
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Download or read book Studies in the History of Civil Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Fitchen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226252035
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals written by John Fitchen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study enables us to appreciate more fully the technical expertise and improvements which enabled the creative spirit of the day to find such splendid embodiment". -- James Lingwood, Oxford Art Journal Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Kathleen Nolan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351956892
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Arts of the Medieval Cathedrals written by Kathleen Nolan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The touchstones of Gothic monumental art in France - the abbey church of Saint-Denis and the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Bourges - form the core of this collection dedicated to the memory of Anne Prache. The essays reflect the impact of Prache’s career, both as a scholar of wide-ranging interests and as a builder of bridges between the French and American academic communities. Thus the authors include scholars in France and the United States, both academics and museum professionals, while the thematic matrix of the book, divided into architecture, stained glass, and sculpture, reflects the multiple media explored by Prache during her long career. The essays employ a varied range of methodologies to explore Gothic monuments. The chapters in the architectural section include an intensive archeological analysis of the foundations of Reims Cathedral, the close reading of a late medieval literary text for a symbolic understanding of Paris, and essays that explore the medieval use of practical geometry in designing entire buildings and their components. Saint-Denis, Reims, and Chartres, all monuments studied by Prache, are discussed in the next part, on stained glass. These chapters demonstrate how old problems can be clarified by new evidence, whether from the accessibility of previously unknown archival information, for Reims, or through revelations that arise from restoration, at Chartres. These essays also include a study showing the complexity of making attributions for the storied glass of Saint-Denis. The final set of essays likewise takes different approaches to sculpture, whether constructing links to the liturgy at Reims, or discussing the meaning of a sculptural ensemble studied by Prache early in her career, the cloister of Notre-Dame-en-Vaux in Châlons-en-Champagne, or scrupulously examining the façade sculpture at Bourges Cathedral for insights into the design process. As a whole, the volume provides a window onto key directions in the study of
Author : Carl F. Barnes Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351883690
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt written by Carl F. Barnes Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new facsimile edition of the Portfolio of the 13th-century Picard artist Villard de Honnecourt is the first ever to be published in color. The thirty-three leaves are reproduced at actual size from high-quality color transparencies to ensure the best possible color reproduction of the drawings. One can now see variations in inks and quill strokes, traces of preliminary drawings, and corrections made by the artist. This study is also the first to give a thorough description of the condition of the leaves, analysis of each drawing in the portfolio individually, and new transcriptions and literal and free translations of the inscriptions. The opening chapter covers the history and physical condition of the portfolio, including reassigning "hands" to text found on the leaves. The author analyses the tools and inks used, Villard's drawing technique and style, and evaluates Villard as an artist-draftsman. Chapter II, the body of the book, is devoted to detailed analyses of the leaves, one by one, and their drawings and inscriptions. These analyses are of interest to those concerned with medieval technology and theology as well as to those interested in medieval art and architecture. Chapter III is a new biography of Villard that challenges the many wild speculations of the last century and a half about Villard, separating obvious fiction from possible fact. Barnes analyzes in detail Villard's drawings of different Gothic buildings and makes a case for Villard having been a lay representative of the cathedral chapter at Cambrai, one of the buildings Villard drew. An extensive bibliography of Villard studies and a glossary of Villard's technical and artistic terms complete this important new study.
Author : David T. Yeomans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351891642
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Development of Timber as a Structural Material written by David T. Yeomans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woodworking has been one of the most important technologies from the earliest times. Carpentry was important for buildings and bridges and as an integral part of most construction processes. The history of this subject has been explored by a variety of scholars, from archaeologists who have studied medieval timber techniques to engineers who have been interested in the development of bridges. The different studies have explored the methods of carpentry, the behaviour of the structures that were built and even the economic and social histories behind the development of carpentry techniques. This book collects together a number of papers representing this full range of scholarship as well as providing a general review of work in the field.
Author : Matthew Wells
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134343256
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Engineers written by Matthew Wells and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and illustrates engineering design and what conditions, events, cultural influences and personalities have brought it to its present state. For professional and student architects and engineers.
Author : Nancy Y. Wu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351960857
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Ad Quadratum written by Nancy Y. Wu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the project is to provide the most up-to-date survey on issues dealing with practical geometry and how it might have been applied in the design of medieval architecture. Chronologically, the topics cover a wide span - from early Medieval through Late Gothic. Geographically, the monuments under discussion range from Early Medieval Florence through Carolingian Germany, Crusader Cyprus, Romanesque France and Gothic England. The applications of both geometry and metrology are considered in this volume, often with illustrations generated by computer-assisted design (CAD) software. The project therefore offers recent scholarship in the field, as well as cutting-edge technology which helps propel the pursuit of such studies. To this end, the project is the first of its kind both in terms of its focus and its comprehensiveness. Such a project is sorely needed to introduce this highly specialized discipline to other historians of art, history, and science of the Middle Ages, as well as historians in most humanistic areas.
Author : Massimo Mastrogregori
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110950014
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book 1997 written by Massimo Mastrogregori and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.
Author : William Addis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351897462
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Structural and Civil Engineering Design written by William Addis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of design has often been neglected in studies considering the history of structural and civil engineering. Yet design is a key aspect of all building and engineering work. This volume brings together a range of articles which focus on the role of design in engineering. It opens by considering the principles of design, then deals with the application of these to particular subjects including bridges, canals, dams and buildings (from Gothic cathedrals to Victorian mills) constructed using masonry, timber, cast and wrought iron.
Author : Michael Tutton
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048532590
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Construction as Depicted in Western Art written by Michael Tutton and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Building has captured the interest of artists from the Roman period to today. The process of construction appears in western art in all its details, trades, and operations. Michael Tutton investigates the representation of building processes and materials through an examination of paintings, illuminated manuscripts, watercolours, prints, drawings and sculpture. Technical terms are explained and detailed interpretations of each work are provided, with insights into the artists' inspiration and themes. Even paintings not wholly or principally devoted to construction sites may give tantalising glimpses of building activity. How do these images convey meaning? How much is imagined; how much is authentic? Fully referenced endnotes, bibliography, and glossary complement the text and captions, informing not only the architectural and construction historian, but also those simply interested in art.
Author : Michael M. Chrimes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351892630
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Civil Engineering of Canals and Railways before 1850 written by Michael M. Chrimes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1750 and 1850 the British landscape was transformed by a transport revolution which involved engineering works on a scale not seen in Europe since Roman times. While the economic background of the canal and railway ages are relatively well known and many histories have been written about the locomotives which ran on the railways, relatively little has been published on how the engineering works themselves were made possible. This book brings together a series of papers which seek to answer the questions of how canals and railways were built, how the engineers responsible organised the works, how they were designed and what the role of the contractors was in the process.
Author : R.J.M. Sutherland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351897403
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Structural Iron 1750–1850 written by R.J.M. Sutherland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the period when iron became the dominant ’high-technology’ material, increasingly taking over from timber and masonry. It was necessary for the engines and machines of the new industries, but equally vital for the vast civil engineering works which supported this industrialisation. It was these works - mills, warehouses, dockyards, and above all bridges - which so impressed the public in the early 19th century. The papers selected here trace the evolving structural uses of cast and wrought iron in frames and roofs for buildings, and look in particular at the development of bridge design and construction, in America, France, and Russia, as well as in Britain. They cover the processes of design and testing, and at the same time throw much light on the attitudes and careers of the engineers themselves.
Author : Robert A. Scott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520231775
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Gothic Enterprise written by Robert A. Scott and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-10-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott pens a wonderfully readable guide to the ideas, beliefs, historical conditions, and engineering feats that came together in the Middle Ages (roughly mid-12th to mid-15th centuries) to enable the creation of the Gothic cathedral.
