Stone Wood Glass And Steel

Download or read book Materials in Architecture written by Gingko Press and published by Gingko PressInc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concrete. Glass. Steel. Stone. Wood. These materials when used in architecture inform our experience of buildings through aesthetic, social and historic experiences. Contributing both structurally and decoratively, their role permeates through the visceral to both a fundamental and integral level. This vast catalogue of architectural forms celebrates these simple materials which support the work of the architecture and their designers, whilst aiding a human relationship to the structures which becomes as strong as the materials in question.