title: Historical Building Construction: Design, Materials, and Technology (Second Edition)
author:  Donald Friedman 
description: [A] classic in the field.A modern engineer attempting to renovate or rehabilitate buildings needs to understand the mundane as well as the exceptional in order to design the most effective and least intrusive solution. <em>Historical Building Construction</em> offers an engaging way to develop that understanding.<br /> - <strong><em>Civil Engineering</em></strong>
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  Buildings 2020, 10, 65; doi:10.3390/buildings10040065 
  www.mdpi.com/journal/buildings 
  Article 
  Construction History and the History of Construction 
  Cultures: Between Architecture and Engineering in 
  Portugal 
  João Mascarenhas-Mateus 
  CIAUD—Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Lisbon School of Architecture, University 
  of Lisbon, 1349-063 Lisboa, Portugal; joao.m.mateus@fa.ulisboa.pt 
  Received: 14 February 2020; Accepted: 26 March 2020; Published: 28 March 2020 
  Abstract: This paper aims to debate the epistemological boundaries of construction history, in 
  relation to the fields of history of architecture and the history of engineering, using Portugal as a 
  case study. The concept of construction culture is used to broaden the analysis, avoiding the old 
  dichotomy between architects and engineers. Instead, construction history (understood as the 
  history of construction cultures) aims to integrate the contributions of all actors in this sector of 
  activity, such 