First Comprehensive Survey of the History of BuildingConstruction and Civil Engineering; More than 800 Photographs, ArchivalDrawings, and Specially Commissioned Diagrams."The history of ideas in building engineering is a vast underexploredrange.Bill Addis has written an excellent guide and history that is bothencyclopaedic and subtle . . . [It] should be in every architect andengineer's library." -Professor Guy Nordenson, School ofArchitecture, Princeton UniversityThe Parthenon, Cathedral of Chartres, dome of St. Peter's,eighteenth-century silk mills in England, Crystal Palace, Chicagohigh-rises, Sydney Opera House, and the latest "green" skyscrapers all havethe same common threads running throughout their foundation.Design,engineering, and construction links the ancient to the modern and are theblueprint of every building.