Ancient Building Technology, Volume 3: Construction (2 Vols)Building construction is the subject of this third part of the Ancient Building Technology set dealing with the history of building and building materials). Beginning with the formulation of a project it goes on to discuss preliminary site surveying and setting out, followed by building site development and its attendant installations, and then examines the disposition of the various building materials in building construction from pre-history to the end of antiquity. |
Contents
Preparatory Measures | 1 |
Setting out | 17 |
Building Site Development and Installations | 41 |
Wood Construction | 111 |
Stone Construction | 139 |
Brick EarthClay Construction | 229 |
Roman Concrete Construction | 269 |
Conclusion | 285 |
Index | 299 |
Common terms and phrases
4th Millennium BC 5th Century BC ABSP Anatolia ancient building Ancient World angles antiquity arches Architecture ashlar barrel vault bastard ashlar beams bed joints bonding brick construction brick masonry brickwork Bronze Age builders building construction built burnt brick Byzantine centering Century BC chamber columns concrete domes corbelled course Cyclopean Cyprus drawings dressed stone earth Egypt evidence finely dressed foundations framed G.R.H. Wright Greece ground headers height horizontal installations Kalabsha levering load bearing massive material Megalithic Mesopotamia Millennium BC mixed construction monolithic monumental building mortar mud brick opus opus testaceum Palace Pharaonic Egyptian Pharaonic masonry polygonal masonry pyramid quarry ramp ribs Roman building Roman Concrete Rome Round House rubble Sassanian scaffolding slabs soffite span square squinch stone construction stone masonry stretchers structure surviving Temple terrace roofing tholos timber timber circles tion Tomb traditional modern vertical voussoirs wall face wood wooden