Ancient Building Technology, Volume 3: Construction (2 Vols)Building construction is the subject of this third part of the Ancient Building Technology set dealing with the history of building and building materials). Beginning with the formulation of a project it goes on to discuss preliminary site surveying and setting out, followed by building site development and its attendant installations, and then examines the disposition of the various building materials in building construction from pre-history to the end of antiquity. |
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Table des matières
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Wood Construction | 111 |
Stone Construction | 139 |
Brick EarthClay Construction | 229 |
Roman Concrete Construction | 269 |
Conclusion | 285 |
Index | 299 |
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Ancient Building Technology: Vol. 3, Construction. Text. Pt. 1 George R. H. Wright Aucun aperçu disponible - 2009 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
4th Millennium BC 5th Century BC ABSP Anatolia ancient building Ancient World angles antiquity arches Architecture ashlar barrel vault bastard ashlar beams bed joints blocks bonding brick construction brick masonry bricks set brickwork Bronze Age builders building construction built burnt brick Byzantine centering Century BC chamber Classical Greek columns concrete domes corbelled course Cyprus drawings dressed stone drums earth Egypt Egyptian evidence finely dressed foundations framed G.R.H. Wright Greece Greek building ground headers height horizontal installations Kalabsha levering load bearing massive material Megalithic Mesopotamia Millennium BC mixed construction monolithic monumental building mortar mud brick Neolithic opus opus testaceum orthostates Pharaonic masonry procedure pyramid quarry ramp ribs rock cut Roman building Roman Concrete Rome Round House rubble scaffolding slabs soffite span squinch stone masonry stretchers structure surviving Temple Tholos timber timber circles tion Tomb traditional modern vertical voussoirs wall face wood wooden

