Aluminum in Modern Architecture

Auteur(s) : Weidlinger, Paul

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  Titre / Title

  Aluminum in Modern Architecture

  Complèment de titre

  Volume II Engineering Design and Details

  Auteur(s) / Author(s)

  Weidlinger Paul, auteur principal

  Catégorie d'ouvrage

  TECHNIQUE

  Publication

  Louisville, Kentucky, États-Unis: Reynolds Metals Company, 1956

  Description technique / Physical description

  2 vol. (403 p.) : ill., plans

• Langue / Language

  Américain

• Description

  • Résumé / Abstract

    [Présentation sur la jaquette] [i]Aluminum in Modern Architecture Volume II Engineering Design and Detail[/i] by Paul Weidlinger « The use of aluminum has incredibly changed since it was a rare metal on a par with gold. Now that structures including bridges are built with it, and aluminum airplanes are `a ,prime source of instruction to the building industry aluminum is a subject for careful engineering. Volume II of [i]Aluminum in Modern Architecture[/i] is edited by Paul Weidlinger one of that small group of truly creative building engineers in the U. S.that is endowed with esthetic insight as well as engineering skill. The part that is likely to get most attention first is the part on joints and connections. ?At present there are no generally accepted standardized connections in structural aluminum. Thus design is time consuming compared to conventional materials.' The book goes a long way toward supplying a full complement of these time conserving needs. Yet the more readers penetrate from the back to the front of the book the better. For this is a rare kind of engineering book for the building industries to have. It treats the building field to the kind, of rounded knowledge which industries like aviation habitually expect, but building rarely gets. The book deals with everything pertaining to aluminum; its mining, its processing, its fabrication, its qualities under different conditions of use and the various classification systems like the classification of alloys. The publication of this volume is in fact a mark of the graduai maturing of the building industry as a modern industry, and the maturing also of corporate procedures among our big primary producers. The Reynolds Metals Company a company that had its origin in fabrication rather than production, here tests a modern thesis. Leadership can be achieved by a corporation which masters communication. Moreover the furnishing of exact scientif information has become an expected corporate service. The more of this kind of literature the builiding industry can obtain, the better it can keep its place in the modern parade." David Allison "Architectural Forum" "These books document beautifully the architectural uses of aluminum ? one of the few really new materials of our time. In well-chosen examples of completed work and in clear text explaining background and technical data, the authors have brought together all that a good designer needs to stimulate and direct his own creative imagination in the use of aluminum. There is even a fine group of statements by architects and engineers explaining how their imaginations [i]have[/i] been stimulated." Thomas H. Creighton Editor "Progressive Architecture" "Both volumes of "Aluminum in Modern Architecture" are more than normally rewarding study experiences. Volume I is the most complete pictorial cataloging of modern American buildings anywhere published, and Volume II is without question the best and broadest collection of detailing in this ubiquitous material." John Knox Shear Editor "Architectural Record"