Building the Nineteenth Century by Tom F. Peters | MIT Press 1996 Hardcover | Architecture & Engineering History Book | Perfect for Historians and Design Enthusiasts

Peters, Tom F. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1996.

English, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 10 1/4" x 8", [xi] xiv, [3] 535 pp.

ISBN: 9780262161602

Black cloth over board, stamped silver lettering to spine, minor cocking to spine, light soiling to pg.28- pp.29, otherwise, sharp tips, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. Very Good blue and green pictorial dust jacket, featuring black and color illustrations to front and back panels, black lettering to front, back, spine, and interior flaps, minor wear to tips, some sunning to spine, and light soiling to spine and front panel, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. [xi] xiv, [3] 535 pp., replete with black-and-white illustrations, images, and maps. Includes "Preface: Building a Tectonic Culture in the Nineteenth Century," Part I with three chapters: "Creating the Modern World through Communication, Commerce, and Progress," "Structural Materials, Methods, and Systems: The Prerequisites of Change," "The Human Element: Manual Work, Mechanization, Progress, and Technological Thought," Part II with four chapters: "Worlds Apart: From the Thames to the Mont Cenis Tunnel," "The Transition and the Catalyst: The Conway and Britannia Bridges and the Suez Canal," Patterns of Technological Thought: Buildings from the Sayn Foundry to the Galerie des Machines," "The Result in Small and Large: The Langwies Viaduct and the Panama Canal," "Conclusion: The Building Process and Technological Thinking," Notes, Bibliography, and Index. From inside dust jacket: "Is there a culture of construction? To answer this question, Tom Peters crosses the traditional boundaries between civil engineering and architecture to look at how builders thought processes influenced construction, and particularly at how construction thinking changed, in the last century."