From Wattle and Daub to Concrete and Steel: The Engineering Heritage of Australia's Buildings
by Henry J. Cowan, Peter R. Smith
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0522847307
- ISBN 13
- 9780522847307
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About This Item
Melbourne University Press; Melbourne, AU, 1998. Hardcover. Good/Good. 9x6x1. [AUSTRALIA]. Cowan, Henry J., and Peter R. Smith. "From Wattle and Daub to Concrete and Steel: The Engineering Heritage of Australia's Buildings." Melbourne, AU: Melbourne University Press, 1998. English language. Hardcover in jacket. Text with black and white illustrations. 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches. 21 oz. xiv, 229 pp., [1]. Former library copy. Clear library jacket atop publisher's jacket. Sticker on publisher's jacket's spine. Sticker, stamp, sticker residue, and ink notation on free front endpaper. Stamps on pages 101 and 229. Yellowing to edges of pages. Sticker residue on back free endpaper. Text clean. Good Plus. ISBN: 9780522847307. "From Wattle & Daub to Concrete & Steel is the first history of building techniques in Australia, from the primitive buildings of the early colonies to today's high-tech construction methods. Henry Cowan traces construction techniques from the earliest wattle-and-daub, through traditional European construction methods using stone, timber, brick and iron, to the early development of Australian brick veneer and the first buildings using steel frames. He shows how the enormous changes in building technology this century have revolutionised the way we design, use and think about our buildings and how they have shaped our cities and our lives.
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- Bookseller
- Exchange Value Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0002219
- Title
- From Wattle and Daub to Concrete and Steel: The Engineering Heritage of Australia's Buildings
- Author
- Henry J. Cowan, Peter R. Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0522847307
- ISBN 13
- 9780522847307
- Publisher
- Melbourne University Press; Melbourne, AU
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 9x6x1
- Keywords
- Australia, Oceania, Architecture, Engineering, Building, Cowan, Wattle, Daub, Steel, Concrete, History, Melbourne, Academic
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
- X weight
- 21 oz
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The dealer is an alum of the Rare Book School and the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar.
I started in the trade at the Wexner Center for the Arts bookstore, and previously worked for the Columbus Metropolitan Libraries, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, and the Indiana University Eskenazi Museum of Art's Center for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.
Besides selling books, I proofread them for Farrar, Straus and Giroux. jamespayne.info.
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