The art of construction : projects and principles for beginning engineers and architects / Mario Salvadori ; drawings by Saralinda Hooker and Christopher Ragus.

Other Titles: Building.

Author: Salvadori, Mario, 1907-1997.

Edition: 3rd ed.

Publisher: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, c1990.

ISBN: 1556520808 :

Description: v, 149 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject: Structural analysis (Engineering) Juvenile literature.
Building materials Juvenile literature.
Structural analysis (Engineering).
Building materials.
Models and modelmaking.
Handicraft.

Notes: Rev. ed. of: Building. New York : Atheneum, 1979.
Includes index.

Summary: Explains how tents, houses, stadiums, and bridges are built, and how to build models of such structures using materials found around the home.