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082			_a720.1 _bCRU
100			_aCruvellier, Mark R. & Others _963713
245			_aModel perspectives : structure, architecture and culture
260			_aNew York _bRoutledge _c2017
300			_axii,427p.
505			_aCONTENTS Chapter 1.Columns. Auguste Perret and the Concrete Column From concrete : The Vision of a New Architecture by Peter Collins Mies’ Columns: Barcelona and Beyond 8 Villa Mairea’s Columnar Variations 12 A Forest of Minimal Columns 16 The Sendai Mediatheque and its Tube-Columns 22 Model Studies 26 Chapter 2. Walls 45 Barragán’s Walls and Color 46 Inca Walls at Ollantaytambo 50 Schindler’s Metaphysical Walls 56 Ando’s Ephemeral Concrete Walls 60 The Sculpted Walls of Richard Serra 64 Model Studies 70 Chapter 3. Beams and Slabs 89 Arresting Cantilever Deflections 90 Nordic Pavilion - An Illuminating Beam Matrix 98 The Kimbell’s Beam Variations 102 The Iron and Steel Beam Evolves; Mies Follows Suit 108 Chinese Building Traditions Meet Modernism 114 Nervi’s Isostatically Inspired Ribbed Floors 122 Maillart Minimalism: The Flat Slab Emerges 130 Concrete Takes Flight 136 Floor Plate-Defined Façades 140 Model Studies 144 Chapter 4. Trusses 167 La Tour Eiffel : A Truss, and More 168 Truss Forms and Style Battles 176 Truss Forms and Design Collaborations 182 Neimeyer’s Subtly Deceptive Trusses 188 Metabolism and the Space Frame 194 Tensegrity and the Architecture of Life 198 Model Studies 206 Chapter 5. Frames 227 To Frame - or not to Frame 228 Framing Views, Framing Victory 238 Breuer and Nervi’s Folded Frames 244 Braced Frames and High-Tech Dreams 250 Informal Frames 256 Model Studies 272 Chapter 6. Cables, Nets and Membranes 297 Seemingly Free Form Structures in Montréal and Munich 298 Cybernetic and Lightweight Dreams 304 Stayed Roof Systems and High-Tech Identity 308 Jugaad : Suspending a Communal Canopy 316 Marsyas : Structure and Metaphor 320 Model Studies 326 Chapter 7. Arches, Domes and Shells 343 Informing Arch Form 344 Veiled and Vaulted Space 356 Domes as Optical Instruments 360 The Politics of Candela’s Shells 370 SANAA’s Ceilings and Skies 376 Model Studies 382 Afterword 401 Models are Real 402 A Model Curriculum 404 Endnotes 412 Text Credits 420 Image Credits 422 Index 424
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