
Treatise on Architecture
Including the Arts of Construction, Building, Stone-Masonry, Arch, Carpentry, Roof, Joinery, and Strength of Materials
Arthur Ashpitel(Editor)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 27. June 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
380 pages
978-1-108-06209-1 (ISBN)
Description
The architect Arthur Ashpitel (1807-69) worked on a wide variety of projects, including churches, houses and schools, and wrote widely on architecture, literature and politics. He became a fellow of the Institute of British Architects in 1841 and the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1847. This 1867 work comprises his compilation and revision of notable tracts on architecture from the Encyclopaedia Britannica. It includes entries by William Hosking (1800-61) on classical, Gothic and modern architecture, building and construction; Thomas Tredgold (1788-1829) on joinery and stonemasonry; Thomas Young (1773-1829) on carpentry; and John Robison (1739-1805) on roofs, arches and the strength of materials. Intended to be of practical use to architects, craftsmen and 'the building trade', Ashpitel's synthesis remains a valuable resource for scholars interested in nineteenth-century thought on architectural history, practice and technology.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
55 Plates, black and white; 350 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
984 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-06209-1 (9781108062091)
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Content
Preface; Treatise on architecture; Construction; Building; Stone-masonry; Arch; Carpentry; Roof; Joinery; Strength of materials; Description and explanation of the plates; Plates.