TY - BOOK ID - 43594706 TI - Creating shapes in civil and naval architecture : a cross-disciplinary comparison AU - Nowacki, H. AU - Lefèvre, Wolfgang PY - 2009 SN - 9789004173453 9004173455 9786612601729 9047426916 1282601725 9789047426912 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Naval architecture KW - Hulls (Naval architecture) KW - Shape theory (Topology) KW - Structural optimization. KW - Shipbuilding KW - History. KW - Design and construction KW - Architecture navale KW - Coques (Architecture navale) KW - Théorie de la forme (Topologie) KW - Optimisation des structures KW - Construction navale KW - Histoire KW - Conception et construction KW - Optimal structural design KW - Optimization, Structural KW - Optimization of structural systems KW - Optimum design of structures KW - Optimum structural design KW - Optimum structures KW - Structures, Optimum design of KW - Structural design KW - Homotopy theory KW - Mappings (Mathematics) KW - Topological manifolds KW - Topological spaces KW - Shipfitting KW - Architecture, Naval KW - Marine architecture KW - Ships KW - Architecture KW - Nautical influences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:43594706 AB - The design, construction and verification of complex two- and three-dimensional shapes in architecture and ship geometry have always been a particularly demanding part of the art of engineering. Before science-based structural design and analysis were applied in the construction industries, id est, before 1800, the task of conceiving, documenting and fabricating such shapes constituted the most significant interface between practitioner's knowledge and learned knowledge, above all in geometry. The history of shape development in these two disciplines therefore promises especially valuable insights into the knowledge history of shape creation. This volume is a collection of contributions by outstanding scholars in their fields of study, archaeology, history of architecture and ship design, in classic antiquity, the Middle Ages and the early modern period. The volume presents a comparative knowledge history in these two distinct branches of construction engineering. ER -