Revolving Architecture A History of Buildings That Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot

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Free Download Chad Randl, "Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings That Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot"
English | ISBN: 1568986815 | 2008 | 208 pages | PDF | 17 MB
Alternately lauded as the future of architecture or dismissed as pure folly, revolving buildings are a fascinating missing chapter in architectural history with surprising relevance to issues in contemporary architectural design. Rotating structures have been employed to solve problems and create effects that stationary buildings can't achieve. Rotating buildings offeredever-changing vistas and made interior spaces more flexible and adaptable. They were used to impress visitors, treatpatients, and improve the green qualities of a structure by keeping particular rooms in or out of the sun.

The follow-up to his critically acclaimed book A-frame, Chad Randl's Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings that Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot explores the history of this unique building type, investigating the cultural forces that have driven people to design and inhabit them.
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