Readings

Required Readings

Heyman, J. The Stone Skeleton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN: 0521629632.

Zalewski, W., and E. Allen. Shaping Structures: Statics. New York: Wiley, 1998. ISBN: 0471169684.

Additional Texts

Acland, J. The Gothic Vault. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972. ISBN: 0802018866.

Feilden, B. Conservation of Historic Buildings. Boston: Butterworth, 1994. ISBN: 0750658630.

Buy at MIT Press Fitchen, J. Building Construction Before Mechanization. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780262061025.

———. The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. ISBN: 0226252035.

Freidman, D. Historical Building Construction. New York: Norton, 1995. ISBN: 0393702006.

Levy, M., and M. Salvadori. Why Buildings Fall Down. New York: Norton, 1992. ISBN: 039331152X.

Mark, R. Light, Wind, and Structure. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. ISBN 026263158X.

———. Architectural Technology up to the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993. ISBN 0262631571.

Mainstone, R. Developments in Structural Form. 2nd ed. Boston: Architectural Press, 2001. ISBN: 0750654511.

Rabun, J. S. Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings. New York: Wiley, 2000. ISBN: 0471315451.