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This new volume addresses the lasting contribution made by Central
European emigre designers to twentieth-century American design and
architecture. The contributors examine how oppositional stances in
debates concerning consumption and modernism's social agendas taken
by designers such as Felix Augenfeld, Joseph Binder, Josef Frank,
Paul T. Frankl, Frederick Kiesler, Richard Neutra, and R. M.
Schindler in Europe prefigured their later adoption or rejection by
American culture. They argue that emigres and refugees from fascist
Europe such as Gyoergy Kepes, Paul Laszlo, Victor Papanek, Bernard
Rudofsky, Xanti Schawinsky, and Eva Zeisel drew on the particular
experiences of their home countries, and networks of emigre and
exiled designers in the United States, to develop a humanist,
progressive, and socially inclusive design culture which continues
to influence design practice today.
BUILDING SUPERINTENDENCE FOR STEEL STRUCTURES - A PRACTICAL WORK ON
THE DUTIES OF A BUILDING SUPERINTENDENT FOR STEEL-FRAME BUILDINGS
AND THE PROPER METHODS OF HANDLING THE MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION
by EDGAR S. BELDEN. INTRODUCTION: THE problems of superintendence
of steel frame structures aie JL so different from those which
arise in connection with other types of buildings that it has been
necessary for men to make a specialty of building superintendence
for steel buildings. The knowledge of the best types of design, the
proper methods of fabrication, the tests which should be connected
for quality of steel, and finally the proper methods of erecting
the steel, all call for special training apart from the usual
building superintendence methods. It is with the idea of giving
engineer and layman the most authoritative information on this
important subject that this little volume has been published. It
does not attempt to go into the theory of design of steel
structures, but confines itself to the problems of superintendence
alone. The author is abundantly quali- fied to speak on this
subject as he has erected many steel buildings for one of the
biggest contracting firms in the country. He has given the reader
the benefit of his experience as a superintendent by outlining the
duties of this office, and making clear the engineering, legal, and
practical knowledge required. Then he goes into detail regarding
the inspection of the steel material in the fabrication shops and
the proper method of storing it until needed. The problems of
erection are all treated equipment required, foundations, the
handling of the steel, riveting, and painting. The author closes
the article with some adviceas to the proper organization of his
force, how the superintendent should work with architect and owner
and what qualities a good superintendent should possess. Altogether
the article should prove a valuable addition to the technical
literature in this field. Contents include: Introduction 1 Classes
of structures 1 Structural steel 1 Good design 2 Divisions of work
2 General superintendence problems 5 Reconciling theory and
practice 5 Value of forethought 5 Judgment in handling mistakes 5
Theories of designing engineer vs. actualities of contractor 6
Problem of handlingmen 6 Progress charts 8 Shifting character of
contractors organization 8 Handling business details 9 Value of
business methods with businessmen 9 Appointments Contractors
payments Superintendents rulings Purchases Legal points encountered
11 Importance of legal knowledge 11 Rudiments of law 11 Field of
private law 12 Contracts 12 Agency 16 Liability law 18 Building
laws 18 Lien laws 18 Application of the law 19 Duties regarding
drawings 20 Draftsmanship and superintendence compared 20 Knowledge
of drawings important 20 Accuracy of drawings 21 Supplying workmen
with drawings 21 Handling drawings 21 Classes of drawings 22
Conflict in requirements 23 Inspection of material and erection of
steel work 24 Mill inspection Knowledge necessary for mill
inspector Cast iron Wrought iron Steel Necessity of mill inspection
10 10 10 11 24 24 25 26 27 30 Inspection of material and erection
of steel work Continued Shop inspection 30 Amount of inspection
varies with work 30 Drawings in shop 31 Shop processes 31 Reports
38 Inspection and superintendence of erection 38 Kinds of structure
38 Different methods of erecting steel ...
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Kingston
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James J Enright, Kalena J Kelly-Rossop, Emma L Williams
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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION THE exhaustion of the first edition
of this book, within so short a time of its publication, makes it
difficult to add much new matter for the reissue now called for,
or, in the light of subsequent research and experience, to revise
what had already been written. Any book that seemed to show a way
of meeting the present building difficulties, however partially,
was fairly assured of a welcome, but the somewhat unforeseen demand
for my small contribution to the great volume of literature on
cottage-building is, I think, to be attributed chiefly to its
description of Pise- building. Of the very large number of letters
that reach me from readers of the book, quite ninety-nine out of
every hundred are concerned with Pise. The other methods of
building have their advocates and exponents, but it is clearly Pise
that has caught the attention of the public as well as of the Press
both at home and abroad, and it is to this method of construction
that I have chiefly devoted my attention since the writing of the
book as it first appeared. In our English climate Pise-building is
a summer craft, and the small-scale experiments of one person
through a single summer cannot in the nature of things add very
greatly to the sum of our knowledge of what is possible with Pise
and of what is not. Most of the new data have come through the
building of Mr. Stracheys demonstration house, an account of which
is included in the present volume. At the time of writing, various
tests are being carried out with the help of the National Physical
Laboratory but the results, though exceedingly encouraging, are not
yet ready for publication. 1 The fact that Pise- building is
essentially aDry-earth method makes necessary the creation of
artificial summer conditions under which the experiments may be
conducted 1 Certain of these have since been issued and will be
found in Ap pendix IV. at the end of the book. 484387 Preface to
Second Edition during the past winter. As a result of these
researches, a considerable mass of useful data has become available
for the opening of the present building season. 1 Much helpful
information is also likely to come to us from the Colonies,
particularly from Rhodesia and British East Africa, where there is
great activity in Pise-building, and where there is no close season
such as our winter us here. imposes upon It is instructive also to
note that great interest in Pise- building has been aroused in
Canada and in Scandinavia, the two countries that we were wont to
associate particularly with timber-building. From both I have
received a number of letters complaining of the lumber shortage,
and discussing the advantages of Pise as compared with their
traditional wood-construction. If these great timber countries are
themselves feeling the pinch, the advocates of wooden houses for
England may find that they are not merely barking up the wrong
tree, but up a tree that is not even there. The timber famine is, -
in any case, a calamity to anyone dependent on building, that is to
everyone, for even a Pise house must still have a roof and floors
and joinery. But to invoke the timber house as our salvation under
existing conditions seems to be singularly perverse and
unhelpful...
Dear reader, if you are holding in your hands the book "Legends of
the Phoenix" by A.V.Trehlebov, then in just a moment a magnificent
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questions "Who am i?" "What is my purpose here?" or "Why do we
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these birds rise from their ashes, are then reborn in a magical
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Path.
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Farm Buildings
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W a (William Arthur) 1884- Foster, Deane G 1894-1980 Carter
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Martha Banta reaches across several disciplines to investigate
America's early quest to shape an aesthetic equal to the nation's
belief in its cultural worth. Marked by an unusually wide-ranging
sweep, the book focuses on three major "testing grounds" where
nineteenth-century Americans responded to Ralph Waldo Emerson's
call to embrace "everything" in order to uncover the theoretical
principles underlying "the idea of creation." The interactions of
those who rose to this urgent challenge--artists, architects,
writers, politicians, and the technocrats of scientific
inquiry--brought about an engrossing tangle of achievements and
failures. The first section of the book traces efforts to advance
the status of the arts in the face of the aspersion that America
lacked an Art Soul as deep as Europe's. Following that is a hard
look at heated political debates over how to embellish the
architecture of Washington, D.C., with the icons of cherished
republican ideals. The concluding section probes novels in which
artists' lives are portrayed and aesthetic principles tested.
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