Konstruktionssprachen : Überlegungen zur Periodisierung von Bautechnikgeschichte : eine Hommage an Werner Lorenz / Roland May, Volker Wetzk, Sabine Kuban, Clara Jiva Schulte, Michael Maria Bastgen, Bernhard Heres (Hg.)

• Superior document: Kulturelle und technische Werte historischer Bauten Band 5
• HerausgeberIn: May, Roland 1969-; Wetzk, Volker 1968-; Kuban, Sabine; Schulte, Clara Jiva; Bastgen, Michael Maria; Heres, Bernhard
• VerlegerIn: Birkhäuser Firma
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : Birkhäuser, [2020]
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English; German
• Series: Kulturelle und technische Werte historischer Bauten Band 5
• Physical Description: 256 Seiten; Illustrationen, Pläne, Diagramme, Karte; 29 cm
• Notes: Enthält Literaturangaben
• ISBN: 9783035622287; 3035622280
• ac_no: AC16105805
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Roland May, Volker Wetzk, Sabine Kuban, Clara Jiva Schulte, Michael Maria Bastgen, Bernhard Heres (Hg.)

Architecture has its styles and epochs―but can the history of the underlying construction methods be subdivided into particular epochs? The volume, for the first time, investigates whether comparable historical patterns can be made out behind the facades. The focus is on the specific information conveyed to us by the loadbearing structure and construction details to help us better understand various types of buildings. In addition, the author attempts to discover whether a basic scheme of creation, consolidation, and dissolution of "construction language" can be detected beyond linear models of progression and what the potential of this approach is for a new interpretation of the history of building technology.