Supersheds [electronic resource] : the architecture of long-span, large-volume buildings / Chris Wilkinson.
Supersheds: The Architecture of Long-Span, Large-Volume Buildings deals with large single-volume buildings known as supersheds. This book explains and catalogues the changes in modern architecture of supersheds and illustrates this with significant and important examples. This text is composed of si...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; Boston :
Butterworth Architecture,
1991.
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| Series: | Butterworth Architecture new technology.
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| Summary: | Supersheds: The Architecture of Long-Span, Large-Volume Buildings deals with large single-volume buildings known as supersheds. This book explains and catalogues the changes in modern architecture of supersheds and illustrates this with significant and important examples. This text is composed of six chapters. The first chapter gives a background of 19th century architecture that made possible great exhibition halls and long-spans of the railway era. The second chapter deals with another type of supershed: airship and aircraft hangars. In the third chapter, industrial architecture in Europe a. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 118 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-116) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781483145068 1483145069 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |