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The 1970 first printing of this "documented source book on the supersonic transport planes now being developed and the sonic booms they would produce". A polemic against the Concorde and supersonic transport detailing the harms to animals, people and the environment. Out of print. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
Condition: Very Good+, minor age toning to paper.
Item #828
The first four volumes of "Nexus: Architecture and Mathematics" a series of books exploring the relationship between the two topics derived from lectures and presentations at the Nexus conferences occurring in Florence, Mantua, and Ferrara, Italy and Óbidos, Portugal in 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002. The Nexus Conferences continue with one scheduled in Torino for 2023. Topics and architects covered in the books are wide ranging, including geometry and Baroque architecture, Pompeii, the American Prairie house, musical proportions in relation to architectural ones, Rome's Pantheon, geometric ideas from African art.....
Item #1498
