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The Tower and the Bridge (ISBN 9780691023939) offers a sweeping examination of architecture, urban form, and the social imagination that binds them, tracing the ways towers and bridges have shaped civilizations and civilizations have shaped them in return. This work situates monumental structures within a broader cultural and historical arc, highlighting how engineering prowess, symbolic meaning, and aesthetic aspiration intertwine across eras.
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What do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the concrete roofs of Pier Luigi Nervi have in common? According to this book, now in its first paperback edition, all are striking examples of structural art, an exciting form distinct from either architecture or machine design. Aided by a number of stunning illustrations, David Billington discusses leading structural engineer-artists, such as John A. Roebling, Gustave Eiffel, Fazlur Khan, and Robert Maillart. Textbook > Architecture > History,Textbook > Architecture > Structural,Textbook > Technology & Engineering > History,Textbook > Technology & Engineering > Structural, David P. Billington<
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1985, ISBN: 069102393X
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What do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the concrete roofs of Pier Luigi Nervi have in common? According to this book, now in its first paperback edition, all are striking examples of structural art, an exciting form distinct from either architecture or machine design. Aided by a number of stunning illustrations, David Billington discusses leading structural engineer-artists, such as John A. Roebling, Gustave Eiffel, Fazlur Khan, and Robert Maillart. Textbook > Architecture > History,Textbook > Architecture > Structural,Textbook > Technology & Engineering > History,Textbook > Technology & Engineering > Structural, David P. Billington<
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What do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the concrete roofs of Pier Luigi Nervi have in common? According to this book, now in its first paperback edition, all are striking examples of structural art, an exciting form distinct from either architecture or machine design. Aided by a number of stunning illustrations, David Billington discusses leading structural engineer-artists, such as John A. Roebling, Gustave Eiffel, Fazlur Khan, and Robert Maillart. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Science>Future Tech>Future Tech, Princeton University Press Core >1<
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Billington Jr., David P.: The Tower and the Bridge: The New Art of Structural Engineering - Paperback
1985, ISBN: 069102393X
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The Tower and the Bridge (ISBN 9780691023939) offers a sweeping examination of architecture, urban form, and the social imagination that binds them, tracing the ways towers and bridges have shaped civilizations and civilizations have shaped them in return. This work situates monumental structures within a broader cultural and historical arc, highlighting how engineering prowess, symbolic meaning, and aesthetic aspiration intertwine across eras.
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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780691023939 ISBN (ISBN-10): 069102393X Paperback Publishing year: 1985 Publisher: Princeton University Press Core >1 316 Pages Weight: 0,454 kg Language: eng/Englisch
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ISBN - alternate spelling: 0-691-02393-X, 978-0-691-02393-9 Alternate spelling and related search-keywords: Book author: david billington, eiffel gustave, roebling, maillart Book title: the art the engineer, the tower and the bridge, the art structural engineering, arts, structura, art now, new engineering
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