Patagonia: A Cultural History (Landscapes of the Imagination Book 8)

Description

A thorough redesign for easy reading and navigability
Coverage of all of the primary structural materials (steel, wood, reinforced concrete, and masonry) in one volume
Approximately 700 illustrations, including black-and-white photos, architectural and technical drawings, line diagrams, and freehand sketches
Information on new materials or combinations of materials, composites, and stressed-skin
Real-world examples, sample problems, and useful references to aid understanding of the technical material〞significantly enhanced with more thorough step-by-step descriptions
Just enough mathematics (simple algebra, trigonometry, and solutions of some simple equations) to help the reader make the correct decisions for structures made from steel, wood, concrete, and masonry