ART AND SCIENCE OF BUILDING IN THE WORK OF GIUSEPPE DAMIANI ALMEYDA
ART AND SCIENCE OF BUILDING IN THE WORK OF GIUSEPPE DAMIANI ALMEYDA

Author(s): Cesare Tocci
Subject(s): History, Architecture, History of ideas
Published by: Scientia Socialis, UAB
Keywords: Damiani Almeyda; Art of building; Strength of materials;
Summary/Abstract: The work discusses the changes that have occurred in the structural control of architecture in the second half of the XIXth century. The starting point is supplied by the examination of two projects of the architect–engineer Giuseppe Damiani Almeyda, representative of two successive moments of an evolutionary process whose current outcome seems to be a deep fracture between the fields of architecture and engineering. Giuseppe Damiani Almeyda constitutes a paradigmatic figure of that particular historical moment in which the transition from the ancient art of building to the modern strength of materials occurs.

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