ATLANTE DELLE TENSOSTRUTTURE
(Atlas of Stress Structures)

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The problem of covering large surfaces without the use of intermediate supports has been brilliantly solved, as is well-known, by employing stress structures, tight membranes that work on traction alone. The Atlante di tensostrutture, the eleventh volume in the Grande Atlante di Architettura collection, illustrates simply and effectively, and at the same scientifically, the criteria for the planning of stress structures, as well as the options such structures make available. The second part of the volume provides numerous examples of buildings, with many particulars drawn to scale that planners may use directly in the course of their work.