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Components and Systems
Gerald Staib
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Description for Components and Systems
Hardcover. The volume Components and Systems offers an in-depth and clearly organized presentation of the various types of precast building components - from semifinished products to building with components, open and closed systems. The systems are accompanied by detailed drawings and color photographs. Num Pages: 239 pages, 460 black & white illustrations, 261 colour illustrations, 460 schw.-w. u. 261 farb. Abb. BIC Classification: AMC; TNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 309 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1536.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Birkhäuser Architecture
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
1535g
Place of Publication
Basel, Switzerland
ISBN
9783764386566
SKU
V9783764386566
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Gerald Staib
Gerald Staib is a professor of construction and design at the Dresden University of Technology
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