Main entry:

Billington, David P., 1927-2018, author.

Title & Author:

The tower and the bridge : the new art of structural engineering / David P. Billington.

Edition:

New Princeton science library paperback edition.

Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2022.
©1983

Description:

xx, 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series:

Princeton science library

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A New tradition : art in engineering -- A New art form -- The Ideals of structural art -- The History of structural art -- Engineering and science -- Structures and machines -- Structures and architecture -- The Three dimensions of structure -- Structural art and society -- Part I : The Age of Iron -- 2. Thomas Telford and the new art form -- The Second Iron Age -- Thomas Telford and bridge art -- Telford and the limits of structure -- Art and politics -- Telford's aesthetic -- Science and engineering -- 3. Dt Brunel, Stephenson, and railway forms -- The Problem of form -- Robert Stephenson -- Isambard Kingdom Brunel -- The Tension between structural art and business -- Brunel and Stephenson -- 4. Gustave Eiffel and the crescent bridge -- The Tower and the industrial fair -- Structure and architecture -- Gustave Eiffel -- The 1851 Crystal Palace and the 1867 Paris Exhibition -- Span and tower -- The First crescent bridge : Douro -- The Second crescent : Garabit -- 5. John Roebling and the suspension bridge -- Brunel and Roebling -- The Immigrant engineer -- Roebling at the limit of structure -- The Ohio River Bridge -- Roebling's ideals -- 6. The Bridge and the tower -- Climax and enlightenment -- Function follows form -- The Uncertainty of cost -- Economy and creativity -- Structural art and the artist -- Preliminary ideas on structural art -- Part II : The New Age of Steel and Concrete -- 7. Jenney, Root, and the First Chicago School -- The Office tower -- The Gothic as nostalgia -- The Skyscraper and the cathedral -- The First Chicago School -- William Le Baron Jenney -- John Wellborn Root -- Root and Sullivan -- 8. Big steel bridges from Eads to Ammann -- Skyscrapers and bridges -- Chicago versus St. Louis : the Eads Bridge -- The Forth Bridge -- The Transition : Gustav Lindenthal -- The Hell Gate Bridge -- Modern steel forms : Othmar Ammann -- The George Washington Bridge -- Science and structure -- Hell Gate and Bayonne -- Two visions : Ammann and Steinman -- 9. Robert Maillart and new forms in reinforced concrete -- Prototypical twentieth-century material -- German science versus French business -- The Swiss synthesis -- Robert Maillart -- New bridge forms -- New building forms -- 10. Roof vaults and national styles -- Engineering imagination and local vision -- Dischinger, Finsterwalder, and the German School -- Nervi and the Italian tradition -- The Spanish School : Gaudí, Torroja, and Candela -- Candela and the discipline of thinness -- 11. The Directing idea of Eugène Freyssinet -- A New material -- Eugène Freyssinet -- The Wilderness origins of prestressing -- Le Veurdre and arch aesthetics -- Thin-shell vaulting : Orly and Bagneux -- Freyssinet and Maillart -- 12. Discipline and play : new vaults in concrete -- Form and formula -- Candela, Maillart, and the aversion to ugliness -- The New Swiss synthesis -- Heinz Isler's shells -- Isler and scientific theory -- 13. New towers, new bridges -- Competition and play -- Fazlur Khan and the Second Chicago School -- Structural expression in tall buildings -- Concrete towers -- Steel towers -- Khan and collaboration -- The Highway explosion -- Christan Menn -- From Felsenau to Ganter -- Ganter bridge design -- Democracy and design -- Epilogue : The Idea of structure as art -- Design and art -- Designers and artists -- Notes -- Index.

Summary:

"What do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the concrete roofs of Pier Luigi Nervi have in common? According to The Tower and the Bridge, all are striking examples of structural art, an exciting area distinct from either architecture or machine design. Aided by stunning photographs, David Billington discusses the technical concerns and artistic principles underpinning the well-known projects of leading structural engineer-artists, including Othmar Ammann, Félix Candela, Gustave Eiffel, Fazlur Khan, Robert Maillart, John Roebling, and many others. A classic work, The Tower and the Bridge introduces readers to the fundamental aesthetics of engineering. An essential exploration of the engineering aesthetics of celebrated structures from long-span bridges to high-rise buildings."

ISBN:

9780691236926 paperback
0691236925 paperback
electronic book
9780691236933

Subject:

Structural engineering.
Towers Design and construction.
Bridges Design and construction.
Technique de la construction.
Ponts Conception et construction.
structural engineering.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Engineering (General)
Analysis.
Apartment.
Arch bridge.
Architectural designer.
Architecture.
Art museum.
Art.
Britannia Bridge.
Calculation.
Cantilever.
Career.
Case study.
Central Elevated Walkway.
Centrality.
Chief technician.
Christian Menn.
Collaboration.
Competition.
Complex analysis.
Concrete shell.
Construction.
Consultant.
Curriculum.
Designer.
Diagram.
Efficiency.
Engineering analysis.
Engineering design process.
Engineering.
Fiberboard.
Forth Bridge.
Ganter Bridge.
Garret.
Greenhouse gas.
Gustave Eiffel.
Ideology.
Industrial Building (Detroit).
Industrial Revolution.
Industrial society.
Innovation.
Institution.
Interaction.
Internal combustion engine.
International Style (architecture).
Invention.
Iron Age.
Jacques Ellul.
John Hancock Tower.
Le Corbusier.
Life tenure.
Lightness.
Machine Age.
Machine.
Manufacturing.
Masonry.
Motivation.
Natural environment.
Natural resource.
Obligation.
Obstacle.
Othmar Ammann.
Parapet.
Person A.
Personality.
Phenomenon.
Pier.
Profession.
Project.
Proportion (architecture).
Reputation.
Robert Maillart.
Saving.
Scaffolding.
Structural art.
Structural engineer.
Supporter.
Suspension bridge.
Technological change.
Technology.
The Sense of Beauty.
Theory of Forms.
Theory.
Transmission tower.
Turbine.
Uniqueness.
Urbanization.
Vannevar Bush.
Verrazano Bridge (Maryland).
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
Vocabulary.
Walter Gropius.
Water supply.
Water treatment.
Weapon system.
Weathering.
Willis Tower.
Work function.
Work of art.
Writing.

Form/genre:

Dedicated by College of Engineering Faculty on the occasion of promotion during AY 2021-22.

Added entries:

Princeton science library.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315437
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Copy: 1
Status: Available