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Article: STRUCTURE IN ARCHITECTURE: HISTORY, DESIGN AND INNOVATION.(Brief Article)(Review)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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By Roland J. Mainstone. Aldershot: Ashgate. 999. [pounds]80
During 40 years Roland Mainstone has been a prolific and original writer on developments in the history of architectural structures. This collection of 22 of his papers demonstrates their quality and authority. The greatest achievements in masonry construction take pride of place in the Roman Pantheon, Hagia Sophia, Brunelleschi's Dome at Florence, the dome of St. Peter's. Other papers are devoted to more particular matters -- the hammer-beam roof over Westminster Hall, iron reinforcement in the Louvre, John Smeaton's use of hydraulic cement in the Eddystone lighthouse, and ribbed vaults and squinch ...