Download or read book Building Construction Before Mechanization written by John Fitchen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1989-04-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How were huge stones moved from quarries to the sites of Egyptian pyramids? How did the cathedral builders of the Middle Ages lift blocks to great heights by muscle power alone? In this intriguing book John Fitchen explains and illustrates the solutions to these and many other puzzles in preindustrial building construction. This is the first general survey of the practices and role of the builder (as opposed to the designer) in constructing an array of structures. Fitchen's approach gives a valuable hands-on feel for what it's like to work with ropes and ladders, wedges and slings; with crews engaged in well digging, bridge building, and the transporting of obelisks hundreds of miles by water and over land. The buildings discussed range from the tents, tepees, and igloos of nomadic tribes to the monumental pyramids of Egypt, the temples of Greece, the aqueducts of Rome, and the cathedrals of medieval Europe.

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Download or read book Building a House in Rural Romania before and after 1989 written by Florica (Bohîlțea) Mihuț and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers anthropologists, historians, and sociologists a starting point for research on the diversity that characterizes the Romanian rural architectural landscape in the communist and post-communist eras. It is the first contextual analysis of the legal framework for constructing privately owned houses during the Ceausescu dictatorship, including the changes due to the 1977 earthquake. The research is also intended to provide the social, cultural, and historical premises for the analysis of dwelling construction after the fall of the communist regime. It is also a book about the social significance of the actions, from long-term planning to daily routines that transform a house into a home, that create hierarchies within the domestic group or the rural community.

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Download or read book Look Before You Build written by Martha B. Tyler and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will guide local officials throughout the U.S. in establishing programs to require and review geologic studies prior to approving development. It was also written to provide concerned citizens and prospective land developers with useful information about the need for geologic studies prior to development. Programs in the San Francisco Bay area are described as a means of showing how procedures to use geologic information for project review can be adapted to specific local circumstances. Photos, maps and diagrams.