Building the Nineteenth Century
Building the Nineteenth Century

Author: Tom Frank Peters

Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13:

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The Sayn Foundry in Bendorf, a German town on the Rhine near the Dutch border, is a fascinating example of complex technological thinking. Although the structural detailing is typical of its period (1830), Prussian engineer and iron founder Karl Ludwig Althans used and varied the many architectural and engineering models at hand in a sophisticated and complex building with structural elements that can be read as advertisements, machine parts, religious forms, or simply as building elements. The foundry, which is still standing, is just one of the many projects Peters examines in this broad synthesis of nineteenth-century technological thought and methods of design that form the basis of the modern built world. Through such examples, he traces the growth of technological thinking as one of our culture's chief modes of thought and establishes its primacy over other forms such as scientific or humanistic thinking as the major component of building design.

Descriptive Catalogue of the Charters, Rolls, Deeds, Pedigrees, Pamphlets, Newspapers, Monumental Inscriptions, Maps, and Miscellaneous Papers Forming the Jackson Collection at the Sheffield Public Reference Library
Descriptive Catalogue of the Charters, Rolls, Deeds, Pedigrees, Pamphlets, Newspapers, Monumental Inscriptions, Maps, and Miscellaneous Papers Forming the Jackson Collection at the Sheffield Public Reference Library

Author: A. Hermann Thomas

Publisher: Alpha Edition

Published: 2019-08-15

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9789389465204

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