The Art of Structural Design A Swiss Legacy
David P. Billington; Jameson W. Doig
Language: English
Published by Princeton Unviersity Art Museum, 2003
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- Title
- The Art of Structural Design A Swiss Legacy
- Author
- David P. Billington; Jameson W. Doig
- Publisher
- Princeton Unviersity Art Museum
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300097867
- ISBN 13
- 9780300097863
- Dimensions
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Architecture
This handsomely designed book brings together for the first time the outstanding work of four Swiss engineers and their teachers who form the most impressive group of structural artists in the twentieth century: Wilhelm Ritter (1847–1906), Robert Maillart (1872–1940), Othmar Ammann (1879–1965), Pierre Lardy (1902–1956), Heinz Isler (b. 1926), and Christian Menn (b. 1927).
David P. Billington, who has written widely on these engineers, argues that it is important to consider them as artists, for aesthetics played a major role in their design philosophy. He explains that their shared approach to design was developed while they attended the Federal Technological Institute in Zurich: Maillart and Amman studied with Ritter there, and Isler and Menn studied under Lardy. Billington focuses on the engineers’ artistic approach to bridge design and construction, and he discusses their impressive individual contributions to structural engineering.
Generously illustrated, this book features many newly commissioned photographs, including images of important new structures such as the Charles River Bridge in Boston, completed by Menn in 2002.
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