Tensile Structures by Frei (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Well-kept copy. Clean pages and bright covers. Filled with drawings, photos and equations. LAbel on lower spine that appears to be from a private library. Name on pastedown and design firm stamp on endpapers. JAcket does its job to cover book, but has a large chip out of the top edge. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, CA Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Book has a slight bow to covers, mild rubbing to covers with light smudges to back, mild wear to edges with slight bumps to outer top corners. in good condition due to missing dust jacket, otherwise a solidly-bound copy with unmarked interiors.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Highly technical; loaded with images and equations. No marks in text. Not a library book. Ships in a cardboard enclosure, with tracking. Tim's Used Books, open shop in Provincetown USA, buying and selling good books at fair prices on the same spot since 1991. Got books? Reach out! Thank you.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 491 pp. Volume 1: 320 pp. Volume 2: 171 pp. Tightly bound. Tips of two corners lightly dinged. Text is free of markings. No dust jackets. NOTE: EX-LIBRARY COPY. No names or stamps on the page edges. Text is in German. This set is from the Franklin Institute Library.

Soft cover. Condition: See Description. Tensile Structures, Otto, Frei. Published by the MIT Press, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1973. Fifth printing, 1982. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume 1 and 2 combined. Vol.1: 320pp.; Vol. 2: 168pp. Card covers. Moderate shelf wear to covers; binding is tight and secure. Ordre des Architects du Quebec stamp to first 3 pages and otherwise contents are in fine condition without markings, tears or folds. Frei Paul Otto (1925-2015) was a German architect and structural engineer noted for his use of lightweight structures, in particular tensile and membrane structures. His first major international project was his design for the West German pavilion at the 1967 world's fair in Montreal (Expo 67). With the construction of the stadium for the Munich Olympic games in 1972 Otto Frei became the great master of tensile structures. Otto was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Grand Prize of the German Association of Architects and Engineers, Berlin (1996), the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2005), and the Pritzker Prize (2015).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (in mylar). Drawings and Photographs (illustrator). Volume Two only; binding lightly edge-rubbed; textblock immaculate and tight; dust jacket lightly to moderately edge-worn; black and white photographs and diagrams throughout; 171 pp. including index. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. Good. In Good- unclipped dust jacket. Wear, creasing, and light tears to dust jacket. Front hinge is loose. Used with wear and/or markings but is still in solid reading condition. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore since 1992.

Hardback. Condition: Worn But Complete Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Worn. First Edition 1st Edition. Size: Oversize.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Volume One. Soft cover copy in near fine condition. Minor wear to covers, otherwise pages are exceptionally clean and binding is very tight. Questions welcome.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. This is a very good hardcover copy of the 2 volume set of the original first American editions in very good dust jackets. Both volumes are very clean inside, just a little light spotting to the top page-edges of volume 1 only. Previous owner name in ink on front free endpaper of volume 1. The dust jackets are both complete with light edgewear, the jacket for volume 2 spine top a bit chipped, jackets very good overall. Both jackets in clear mylar covers. This work was originally published in German in 1962 and 1966 under the title " Zugbeanspruchte Konstruktionen". This MIT Press edition was published in 1967 and 1969. Both volumes profusely illustrated in black & white, with photos of models and actual structures, plus much technical information in the form of equations and graphs. Large 4tos, 11" high X 8.5" wide, 320 pages & 171 pages. A very nice hardcover copy of the first American edition in jackets with only light wear. Large heavy books, foreign shipping will be extra. This set will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.

Hardcover without dustjackets, 320 + 171 pages, very good condition; discrete museum library stamps on inside front covers of both volumes; no other internal marks. Priority and foreign shipping may be extra for this item.