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| Other authors / contributors: | Folli, Luisa, author.
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| ISBN: | 9780367345631
0367345633
9781032391182
1032391189
9781032420646
1032420642
9781032420615
1032420618
9781032420561
1032420561
9781032420592
1032420596
9781003361022
9781003361008
1003361005
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Summary: | "Milan has played an important role in the Italian country since the Roman period. This importance is reflected also by the diffusion of stone architecture: a persisting trait of Milan architecture was the use of different stones in the same building. Milan lies in the middle of the alluvial plain of the Po, far from the stone quarries; some waterways were dug out in order to supply the building stones from the surrounding territories. The study of stone as building material was significant at the end of 19th century, but then it was largely neglected by both architects and geologists. So it is significant to suggest a study about the stones employed to build in Milan (Volume 1) in relationship with a petrographic study about the features of the stones quarried in the whole Lombard territory (Volume 2). The present volume contains a record of Milanese edifices marking the different historical periods. Each edifice is described in a "card" containing: the building history, the architect, the kind of stone employed and subdivided according to the different parts of the building, the shape of stone elements. A particular investigation is addressed to the stones used during the 20th century, a great part of them was never used before in Milan (and in Lombardy)"--
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| Other form: | Online version: Bugini, Roberto. Building stones of Milan and Lombardy Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2023 9781003361022
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