Architecture And Engineering: An Illustrated Teacher's Manual On Why Buildings Stand Up (annals Of The New York Academy Of Sciences)

This manual is the fruit of my work in the schools of East Har­lem, the North and South Bronx, and other areas of the New York City School System during the last seven years. When in 1975 the then science coordinator of District 4, Bonnie Brownstein, asked the help of the members of The New York Academy of Sciences in enriching the science curriculum in her di­strict, I proposed as my contribution a course in architectural struc­tures for the students in one of the junior high schools of that district. The new course, called "Why Buildings Stand Up," was going to be based on one I had taught for the last 30 years in the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Columbia Univer­sity. With an appendix on styrofoam models by Richard Kellogg.