The Wooden Carpentry of Roofs in Mediterranean Antiquity

At the Origins of the Trusses

Nicola Ruggieri (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-0237-2 (ISBN)

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The truss adopts the rational configuration of the non-deformable triangle, optimizing the exploitation of the wooden members' resistance resources. It is an extremely efficient structural typology that has gone through the centuries in its almost primitive configuration without substantial modifications, for which finding comparisons in the history of construction is difficult. But when was the truss born? This is the first general-interest book to address this question.Using scant but precious ancient literary documentation, the archaeological finds and the iconography of the figurative products that reproduce roofs, the book traces the gradual evolution process of the roof carpentry that led to such an invention. New hypotheses are advanced on the technical achievements of the main Mediterranean civilizations – Egyptian, Minoan and Mycenaean, Phrygian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman – in a broad and ambitious excursion that crosses the whole of Antiquity. The book is accompanied by a rich illustrative apparatus that includes historical and original photographs as well as numerous explanatory drawings.

Nicola Ruggieri, PhD, is an architect who specializes in historical timber structures and construction history. He was the Italian delegate at the European Cooperation in Science and Technology Action FP1101 – Assessment, Reinforcement and Monitoring of Timber Structures. He has been a member of the scientific committee of numerous international conferences, is the author of more than 100 publications and has taught at several universities (such as the Universities of Calabria, Sapienza, Roma Tre, Florence, Ferrara and Naples, all in Italy). From 2015 to 2018, he was a member of the Segreteria Tecnica di Progettazione of the Parco Archeologico di Pompei, Italy. Since 2019, he has been an expert member of the International Scientific Committee on the Analysis and Restoration of Structures of Architectural Heritage (ISCARSAH) at the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), and of the International Wood Committee (IIWC), also at ICOMOS. He has been an official of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage since 2018.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-0364-0237-1 / 1036402371
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-0237-2 / 9781036402372
Zustand	Neuware