Building
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Building
（Eyewitness guides, 58）
Dorling Kindersley, 1995
Available at 12 libraries
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
There has always been an incredible diversity of domestic buildings around the world from simple branch and animal skin lean-tos to log cabins Roman villas and skyscrapers. This superb collection of photographs brings their variety and construction vividly to life.Starting with different building materials the book looks at how buildings are put together and the problems faced by stonemasons carpenters bricklayers and other craftspeople in their daily work. Learn how a medieval half-timbered house was erected how thatch is put on a roof and how glorious patterns and colours are achieved in mosaics tiles and glass. Discover the different styles of domestic building around the world with houses shown in detail inside and out.Packed with fascinating facts Building is a unique and compelling introduction to the homes we live in.
Table of Contents
- The notion of design
- building with wood
- earth and its uses
- tiles
- building with stone
- the concrete jungle
- glass finishing off
- modern synthetic building materials
- foundations
- walls
- under your feet
- covering up
- building a building
- vaults
- domes
- windows
- grand entrances
- columns and arches
- towers
- ornament and decoration
- extending your property.
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