Description
Book SynopsisSpace frames have offered architects a fascinating alternative to cubic frameworks for many years; well-known space frame structures include the geodesic domes introduced by Buckminster Fuller at Expo 67 in Montreal and Manhattan's Javits Convention Center, created by I.M. Pei.
Table of ContentsPartial table of contents:
Polyhedra, from Pythagoras to Alexander G. Bell (J. Tomlow).
Polyhedrality in the Architecture of Bruce Goff (R. Ristine).
Louis Kahn and Space Frames (I. Ayad).
Buckminster Fuller and the Relevant Pattern (A. Loeb).
Philip Johnson's Crystal Cathedral and the Rhetoric of Its Free-Form Polyhedral Structure (L. Davis).
Tetrahedral Purity: The Javits Center (M. Levy).
Proportion and Symbolism in Polyhedra (R. Motro).
The Structural Morphology of Basic Polyhedra (T. Wester).
Computer-Aided Processing of Polyhedric Configurations (H. Nooshin, et al.).
Tensegrity: Theory and Application (A. Hanaor).
Visual Morphology of Space Labyrinths: A Source for Architecture and Design (H. Lalvani).
Are Space Frames Habitable?
(J. Gabriel).
Contributors.
Index.
