Architecture in Wood: A History of Wood Building and Its Techniques in Europe and North America PDF
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ARCHITECTURE IN WOOD How Maximilian I as a young man learned the technique of building in wood. A woodcut of c.1515 by Hans Burgkmair from the Weisskunig an illustrated chronicle of the Emperor’s life com piled at his command. Architecture in Wood A History of Wood Building and Its Techniques in Europe and North America With contributions by Arne Berg, Emile Bonnel, Hermann Janse, Alfred Kamphausen, Toini-Inkeri Kaukonen, Agnoldomenico Pica, Nancy Halverson Schless, Georg R. Schroubek and J. T. Smith Edited by Hans Jurgen Hansen Translated by Janet Seligman A Studio Book The Viking Press • New York References to the illustrations will be found in the margins opposite the text. The number refers to the page and the small letters after it to the appropriate illustration on that page; thus 189b means illustration (b) on page 189. The captions give the name of the object illustrated, its location, builder and date, when these are known. Absence of any of these details means that the information was not available. Originally published by Gerhard Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg and Hamburg, Germany (Federal Republic) as Holzbaukunst: Eine Geschichte der abendlandischen Holzarchitektur und ihrer Konstruktionselemente 0 Gerhard Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg and Hamburg, Germany (Federal Republic), 1969 English language translation copyright 0 Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1971 Published in 1971 by The Viking Press, Inc. 625 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10022 SBN 670—13148—2 Library of Congress catalog card number 71 — 101786 Printed in West Germany
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