Author: William Yarnall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Dome Builder's Handbook No. 2
Author: William Yarnall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Dome builder's handbook number two
Author: William Yarnall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Dome Builder's Handbook
Author: John Prenis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This book is for people who want to build their own domes. It's also for those who are interested in domes and want to learn more about them.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This book is for people who want to build their own domes. It's also for those who are interested in domes and want to learn more about them.
Dome builder's handbook
Author: William Yarnall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Charas, the Improbable Dome Builders
Author: Syeus Mottel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780877494904
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
"Pioneer Works Press, in partnership with The Song Cave, is pleased to present the release of CHARAS: The Improbable Dome Builders, by Syeus Mottel (2017), a fascinating account of six ex-gang members who broke ground to construct a geodesic dome on a vacant lot in the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge after a 1970 meeting with the celebrated and revolutionary architect R. Buckminster Fuller, also known as Bucky. Originally published in 1973, this republication speaks to the issues at the heart of the CHARAS project as gentrification seems to multiply faster than communities can work to preserve themselves against it. The book acts as a record to highlight ways people have united to activate empty spaces before gentrification. As a group, CHARAS was interested in physically altering the housing conditions in their immediate neighborhood, the Lower East Side. Influenced by Bucky's teachings, the young men of CHARAS began a period of devoted study to solid geometry, spherical trigonometry, and the principles of dome building. Following this period, CHARAS developed a program that encouraged community autonomy and the reclaiming public space. More than simply a documentation of the project, the book offers stories, profiles, interviews, and images, and the group's process from their intensive study to the obstacles they faced while physically constructing domes."--pioneerworks.org
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780877494904
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
"Pioneer Works Press, in partnership with The Song Cave, is pleased to present the release of CHARAS: The Improbable Dome Builders, by Syeus Mottel (2017), a fascinating account of six ex-gang members who broke ground to construct a geodesic dome on a vacant lot in the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge after a 1970 meeting with the celebrated and revolutionary architect R. Buckminster Fuller, also known as Bucky. Originally published in 1973, this republication speaks to the issues at the heart of the CHARAS project as gentrification seems to multiply faster than communities can work to preserve themselves against it. The book acts as a record to highlight ways people have united to activate empty spaces before gentrification. As a group, CHARAS was interested in physically altering the housing conditions in their immediate neighborhood, the Lower East Side. Influenced by Bucky's teachings, the young men of CHARAS began a period of devoted study to solid geometry, spherical trigonometry, and the principles of dome building. Following this period, CHARAS developed a program that encouraged community autonomy and the reclaiming public space. More than simply a documentation of the project, the book offers stories, profiles, interviews, and images, and the group's process from their intensive study to the obstacles they faced while physically constructing domes."--pioneerworks.org
Simple Shelters
Author: Jonathan Horning
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 080271773X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
A brief introduction to the construction and history of basic shelters. Shelter is one of our most basic needs, and throughout history mankind has been highly inventive in meeting it. Simple Shelters introduces the principal types of wooden and stick-frame structures built around the world, examining how their shape and form reflect cultural and cosmological considerations as well as climatic and utilitarian needs. Charting the gradual shift from the circular homes of the nomads to the rectangular ones favored by settled people, Jonathan Horning explores materials and construction principles over millennia, including the geodesic experiments of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 080271773X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
A brief introduction to the construction and history of basic shelters. Shelter is one of our most basic needs, and throughout history mankind has been highly inventive in meeting it. Simple Shelters introduces the principal types of wooden and stick-frame structures built around the world, examining how their shape and form reflect cultural and cosmological considerations as well as climatic and utilitarian needs. Charting the gradual shift from the circular homes of the nomads to the rectangular ones favored by settled people, Jonathan Horning explores materials and construction principles over millennia, including the geodesic experiments of the twentieth century.
Dome Cookbook
Author: Steve Baer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780965538800
Category : Architectural models
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780965538800
Category : Architectural models
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Why Buildings Fall Down
Author: Matthys Levy
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393311525
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
About the reasons for structural collapse, including earthquakes, metal fatigue, and terrorism.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393311525
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
About the reasons for structural collapse, including earthquakes, metal fatigue, and terrorism.
Proxima
Author: Stephen Baxter
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698142950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
“Stephen Baxter has been heralded, with some merit, as Arthur C. Clarke’s literary heir, and Proxima certainly reinforces this accolade in spades.”—Concatenation Mankind’s future in this galaxy could be all but infinite. There are hundreds of billions of red dwarf stars, lasting trillions of years—and their planets can be habitable for humans. Such is the world of Proxima Centauri. And its promise could mean the never-ending existence of humanity. But first it must be colonized, and no one wants to be a settler. There is no glamor that accompanies it, nor is there the ease of becoming a citizen of an already-tamed world. There is only hardship...loneliness...emptiness, even as war brews in the solar system. But that’s where Yuri comes in. Because sometimes exploration isn’t voluntary. It must be coerced.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698142950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
“Stephen Baxter has been heralded, with some merit, as Arthur C. Clarke’s literary heir, and Proxima certainly reinforces this accolade in spades.”—Concatenation Mankind’s future in this galaxy could be all but infinite. There are hundreds of billions of red dwarf stars, lasting trillions of years—and their planets can be habitable for humans. Such is the world of Proxima Centauri. And its promise could mean the never-ending existence of humanity. But first it must be colonized, and no one wants to be a settler. There is no glamor that accompanies it, nor is there the ease of becoming a citizen of an already-tamed world. There is only hardship...loneliness...emptiness, even as war brews in the solar system. But that’s where Yuri comes in. Because sometimes exploration isn’t voluntary. It must be coerced.
Charas
Author: Syeus Mottel
Publisher: Pioneer Works Press
ISBN: 9781945711053
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
When R. Buckminster Fuller, the celebrated and revolutionary architect and inventor of the geodesic dome, met with six ex-gang members, who called themselves ¿CHARAS,¿ a dome-building experiment began in an empty lot on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Through stories, profiles, interviews, and images, this book charts their process¿from the intensive study of advanced mathematics and principles of dome building, to the obstacles of physically constructing domes. Now back-in-print, this intimate and important book tells a story that touches upon topics such as the morals of city planning and affordable housing, rehabilitation and education, public vs. private space, and the desire to strengthen inner-city communities.
Publisher: Pioneer Works Press
ISBN: 9781945711053
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
When R. Buckminster Fuller, the celebrated and revolutionary architect and inventor of the geodesic dome, met with six ex-gang members, who called themselves ¿CHARAS,¿ a dome-building experiment began in an empty lot on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Through stories, profiles, interviews, and images, this book charts their process¿from the intensive study of advanced mathematics and principles of dome building, to the obstacles of physically constructing domes. Now back-in-print, this intimate and important book tells a story that touches upon topics such as the morals of city planning and affordable housing, rehabilitation and education, public vs. private space, and the desire to strengthen inner-city communities.