Author: Gilbert Herbert
Title: Pioneers of Prefabrication: The British Contribution in the Nineteenth Century
Description: Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Cloth. A very smart copy of this important work on the architectural developments in Britain during the nineteenth century. Illustrated throughout with photographs and diagrams. A work of the architectural history in the development of portable houses, whereby systems were introduced to allow component parts of a building to be fabricated in the builder's yard before assembly on the actual building site. Written by Gilbert Herbert, a South African-born professor of architecture and architectural history. From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan, working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture, and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and contributed and edited the "Journal of Architecture". In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with light shelf wear and minor chipping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.
Keywords: Pioneers Prefabrication Herbert Prefabrication None
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Title: Pioneers of Prefabrication: The British Contribution in the Nineteenth Century
Description: Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Cloth. A very smart copy of this important work on the architectural developments in Britain during the nineteenth century. Illustrated throughout with photographs and diagrams. A work of the architectural history in the development of portable houses, whereby systems were introduced to allow component parts of a building to be fabricated in the builder's yard before assembly on the actual building site. Written by Gilbert Herbert, a South African-born professor of architecture and architectural history. From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan, working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture, and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and contributed and edited the "Journal of Architecture". In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with light shelf wear and minor chipping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.
Keywords: Pioneers Prefabrication Herbert Prefabrication None
Price: GBP 120.00 = appr. US$ 171.36 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 856T34
- Book number: 856T34
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