#books #architecture | The art of structures : introduction to the functioning of structures in architecture

The art of structures : introduction to the functioning of structures in architecture / Aurelio Muttoni ; translated from the Italian by Stephen Piccolo.
EPFL Press, Lausanne, Switzerland : 2011. / Routledge, Abingdon [etc.] : 2011.
XIII, 269 p. : il.
ISBN 9782940222384 / 9780415610292
Estructuras -- Diseño.
Diseño arquitectónico.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-624.04 ART
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1810445~S1*spi

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