Nuts & Bolts of Construction History / Culture, Technology and Society (Set 3 volumes)

Nuts & Bolts of Construction History (2000 pages in 3 volumes). 

This collection presents a state of international research in the history of construction, like a palace organized through 240 independently constituted elements. It defends a history of construction open to ail cultures, desiring to balance the engineering sciences with the humanities and social sciences. It seeks to update existing axes of research by taking into account the profound changes sweeping across our planet through the framework of sustainable development and cohabitation. Building is thus excavated by archaeologists, leafed through by archivists and construed by historians and practitioners. They are all there, men and women, both famous and forgotten : masons, carpenters, locksmiths, roofers, draftsmen, architects, engineers, contractors, developers, experts, economists and lawyers. Equally present are the forces that have shaped the constructive field : institutions that direct, companies that innovate, work forces that produce and controversies that emerge.