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Failed Stone: Problems and Solutions with Concrete and Masonry

Failed Stone: Problems and Solutions with Concrete and Masonry

Failed Stone: Problems and Solutions with Concrete and Masonry

$69.95

Loughran, Patrick

Pap. Basel, 2006

Book ID: 70945

Systematically analyzes cases of damage in contemporary international architecture and offers strategies for minimizing the risk of damage. Examples include such high-visibility structures as Finlandia Hall in Helsinki by Alvar Aalto, Renzo Piano's Parco della Musica in Rome, and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington. In nine chapters, typical kinds of damage are explained and illustrated with real-world examples.

112 pp., 130 color illus.