Entre Mécanique Et Architecture / Between Mechanics and Architecture

ISBN-13: 9783034898942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 404 str.

Patricia Radelet-de Grave; Edoardo Benvenuto

Opis

This book is a collective work and its richness lies in the diversity of the perspectives, all historical, focussed on the science of building. Its aim is to counter-balance the picture of architecture provided by art historians who, in general, study the evolution of buildings. In this book, the authors look into what is related to the actual act of building, to the means of assuring building stability. While historians of art are principally concerned with the esthetics of a monument, here the accent is put on the development of the physico- mathematical theories of mechanics to which engineers and constructors have turned, and to the laws of mechanics, of elasticity and of the strength of materials to which they are bound. The study of perspective and projective geometry also enters the work by way of the representations and plans of the buildings to be constructed. The art of building has always been at the center of human endeavors, and the will to see this art advance has had repercussions in all related fields. Today, these complex interrelations provide the groundwork for research of the restoration of historical monuments.

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Table des Matières / Contents.- Entre Mécanique et Architecture.- La construction des “Nuraghi” en Sardaigne.- The so-called “Petrification” and the Birth of the Science of Construction in the Greek Architecture.- Formules d’architectes dans les receptaires et les manuscrits d’arpentage de l’Antiquité et du haut Moyen Age.- La géométrisation des qualités physiques au XVIème siècle: les modèles de la théorie des proportions.- De la perspective à la géométrie projective: le cas du théorème de Desargues.- On the Art of Building before Galilei.- The Analogy between Equilibrium of Threads and Thin Masonry Structures.- Le “de curvatura fornicis” de Jacob Bernoulli.- Jacob II Bernoulli and the Problem of the Vibrating Plate.- Une conception architecturale des mathématiques: la séparation des variables chez Pfaff.- The Teaching of Stereotomy in Engineering Schools in France in the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries: an Application of Geometry, an “Applied Geometry”, or a Construction Technique?.- De la statique des demi-fluides à la théorie de la poussée des terres.- Entre science et art de l’ingénieur. L’enseignement de Navier à l’Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées.- Un monument du xix siècle à Turin: le Pont Mosca sur la Doire.- Les conditions de résistance des matériaux entre resistentia solidorum et hydro-stéréodynamique.- The Theory of Elasticity between Molecular and Continuum Approach in the xix Century.- Construction engineering and natural philosophy: the work by Gabriel Lamé.- Comment la théorie de l’élasticité s’est imposée à l’analyse de la structure portante des voûtes dans les pays germanophones de 1860 a 1900.- Le calcul par la méthode des éléments finis appliqué à la restauration. Une expérience: la cathédrale de Beauvais.- Bibliographie Chronologique; Chronological Bibliography.- Index des noms; Index of names.- Table des matières; Contents.