Robert Maillart's Bridges: The Art of Engineering

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Princeton University Press, 1979 - Architecture - 146 pages

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Contents

rologue The Salgina Crossing
3
Family and School 18721894
5
Reinforced Concrete in the 1890s
9
The Turn from Masonry 18941901
15
The New Bridge Form 19011904
31
From Bridges to Buildings 19041909
43
The Business of Building 19091919
49
From Builder to Designer 19191927
63
Tavanasa Salginatobel and Beyond 19271940
77
Force Follows Form
91
Structure as Art
107
ppendix A The Writings of Robert Maillart
122
ppendix B Map and Table of Maillarts Major Bridges
124
otes
127
dex
143
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About the author (1979)

David P. Billington is Professor of Civil Engineering at Princeton University and the author of The Tower and the Bridge: The New Art of Structural Engineering (Princeton).

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