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A History of Building Construction, Engineering and Design SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY. The following guide to books on the history of construction and building engineering bibliography is compiled by Bill Addis and based on the bibliography in his book: Building: 3000 years of design Engineering and Construction published by Phaidon in 2007. It was compiled in 2006 and will be updated was soon as practically possible. ABRAMS, Duff, “Design of Concrete Mixtures”, Bulletin 1, Structural Materials Research Laboratory of Lewis Institute of Chicago, 1918. ACHE, Jean Baptiste, Eléments d'une histoire de l'art de bâtir. Paris: Éditions du Moniteur des Travaux Publics, 1970. ACKERMAN, J. S., " ‘Ars sine scientia nihil est’ - Gothic Theory of Architecture at the Cathedral of Milan”, Art Bulletin, Vol.XXXI, 1949, pp.84-111. ACKERMANN, Kurt, Building for Industry. London: Watermark, 1991. ACKERMANN, M. E., Cool Comfort: America’s romance with air-conditioning. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 2002. ACLAND, James J., Medieval Structure: the Gothic Vault. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1972. ADAM, Jean-Pierre, Roman Building: materials and techniques. London: Batsford, 1994. ADDIS, W. (Bill), “A history of using models to inform the design and construction of structures.” Pp.9-44 in HUERTA 2005. ADDIS, W, “Free will and determinism in the conception of structures”, Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, Vol.38 No.2, 1997, pp.83-89. Also in HANGLIETER, 1996. ADDIS, W. (Bill), Creativity and Innovation: the Structural Engineer’s Contribution to Design. Oxford: Architectural Press, 2001. ADDIS, W. (Bill), The Art of the Structural Engineer. London: Artemis, 1994. ADDIS, W. Structural Engineering - the Nature of Theory and Design. Chichester: Ellis Horwood, 1990. ADDIS, W., entries on Christopher Wren (pp.799-802) and Robert Hooke (pp.334-337) in SKEMPTON, 2002. ADDIS, W., Structural and Civil Engineering Design Vol.12 of series 'Studies in the History of Civil Engineering'. Aldershot: Ashgate (Variorum), 1999. AGRICOLA, Georgius (Georg BAUER), De re metallica, Basel, 1556. English translation by H.C. & Lou Hoover, London: Mining Magazine, 1912; reprinted New York: Dover Publications, 1950. AIA (Association for Industrial Archaeology), issues of Industrial Archaeology Review dedicated to Textile Mills, Vol.X, No.2, Spring 1988 and Vol.XVI, No.1, Autumn 1993. Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England & Association for Industrial Archaeology. ALBERTI, L.B., De re aedificatoria (Florence, 1485; translated by Leoni, J., (1775) as The ten books of architecture, reprinted Dover Publications, 1986). ALI, Mir, Art of the Skyscraper: the genius of Fazlur Khan. New York: Rizzoli Publications, 2001. ANDERSON, James C., Roman Architecture and Society. Baltimore & London: John Hopkins University Press, 1997. ANDERSON, Standford (Ed.), Eladio Dieste: Innovation in Structural Art, New York: Princeton Architectural press, 2004. ASPRAY, William (Ed.), Computing before computers, Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 1990. (Available on Web at http//:ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/CBC.html) BACH, K., BURKHARDT, B. & OTTO, F. (1988) Seifenblasen / Forming Bubbles, IL18, Institut für leichte Flächentragwerke, University of Stuttgart. BALDI, Bernardino, In Mechanica Problematica Exercitationes. Mainz, 1621. BANHAM, Reyner, A concrete Atlantis. London: MIT Press, 1986. BANHAM, Reyner, The Architecture of the well-tempered environment London, Architectural Press 1969. BANNISTER, Turpin C., “Bogardus revisited. Part I: The iron fronts; Part II The iron towers”. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, XV, No.4, 1956, pp.12-22; ibid., XVI, No.1, 1957, pp.11-19. (Reprinted in THORNE, 2000) BANNISTER, Turpin C., “The first iron-framed buildings”. The Architectural Review, Vol.107, April 1950, pp.231-246. BAUERSFELD, Walter, “Projection Planetarium and Shell Construction”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1957, Reprinted in JOEDICKE 1963. BAYNES, Ken & PUGH, Francis, The Art of the Engineer. Woodstock, N.Y: Overlook Press, 1981. BEAMON, S. P. & ROAF, S., The ice houses of Britain, London: Routledge, 1990. BECCHI, Antonio & FOCE, Federico, Degli archi e delle volte: arte del construire tra meccanica e stereotomia. Venezia: Saggi Marsilio, 2002. BECCHI, Antonio, CORRADI, Massimo, FOCE, Fedrico & PEDEMONTE, Orieta (Eds.), Towards a history of construction. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2002. BECCHI, Antonio, CORRADI, Massimo, FOCE, Fedrico & PEDEMONTE, Orieta (Eds.), Essays on the history of mechanics; in memory of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell & Eduardo Benvenuto. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2003. BECCHI, Antonio, CORRADI, Massimo, FOCE, Fedrico & PEDEMONTE, Orieta (Eds.), Construction history: Research Perspectives in Europe. Genova, Italy: Instituto Edoardo Benvenuto / Kim Williams Books, 2004. BECCHI, Antonio, Q.XVI: Leonardo, Galileo e il caso Baldi. Venezia (Italy): Saggi Marsilio, 2004 BEGGS, G. E., “The accurate mechanical solution of statically indeterminate structures by the use of paper models and special gauges”, Journal of the American Concrete Institute, Vol.8, 1922, pp.58-78. BÉLIDOR, B. F. de, Architecture hydraulique. 4 vols. Paris: 1750-82. BÉLIDOR, B. F. de, La science des ingénieurs dans la conduite des travaux de fortification et d'architecture civile. Paris: 1729. BELOFSKY, Harold, "Engineering Drawing: A Universal Language in Two Dialects." Technology and Culture, Vol.32, No.1, 1991, pp.23-46. BENVENUTO, Edoardo, An Introduction to the History of Structural Mechanics. 2 Vols. New York & Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1991. BERGER, Horst, Light Structures, Structures of Light: the Art and Engineering of Tensile Architecture. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1996. BERGERON, Lous & MAIULLARI-PONTOIS, Maria Teresa, Industry, architecture and engineering: American ingenuity 1750-1950. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. BEYER, Robert T., Sounds of our times: two hundred years of acoustics. New York: Springer Verlag, 1999. st BILL, Max, Robert Maillart: bridges and constructions, 1 Edn Zurich: Verlag für Architektur, 1949; 3rd Edn. London: Pall Mall Press, 1969. BILLINGTON, David P., Robert Maillart’s bridges – the art of engineering. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979. BILLINGTON, David P., The Tower and the Bridge: the new art of structural engineering. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985. BILLINGTON, N.S. & ROBERTS, B.M., Building Services Engineering - a review of its development. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1982. BINDING, Günther, & NUßBAUM, N. Der mittelalterliche Baubetrieb nördlich der Alpen in zeitgenössischen Darstellungen. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1978. BINDING, Günther. 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BOW, Robert Henry, The Economics of Construction related to Framed Structures. London: Spon, 1873. BOWIE, T. (Ed.), The Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1959. BOWLEY, Marion, The British Building Industry: Four Studies in Response and Resistance to Change, Cambridge University Press, 1966. BRODIE, Allan, English Prisons. London: English Heritage, 2002. BROWN, Andre, Peter Rice. London Thomas Telford, 2001. BROWN, J.M., “W. B. Wilkinson (1819-1902) and his place in the history of reinforced concrete”. Transactions of the Newcomen Society, Vol.39, 1966, pp.129-142. Reprinted in NEWBY, 2001. BRUEGEMANN, Robert, “Central Heating and Forced Ventilation: Origins and Effects on Architectural Design”, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, XXXVII, No.3, 1978, pp 143-160. 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