BRIDGES
This visual sourcebook is an account of American bridge design, from familiar monuments to modest structures that offer eloquent statements of problems solved. It surveys American bridges from coast to coast in terms of four fundamental structural types (beam, arch, truss, and suspension) and the sp...
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| Language: | English |
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New York Washington, DC
Norton Library of Congress
2007
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| Series: | Norton/Library of Congress visual sourcebooks in architecture, design, and engineering
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Add Tag | Summary: | This visual sourcebook is an account of American bridge design, from familiar monuments to modest structures that offer eloquent statements of problems solved. It surveys American bridges from coast to coast in terms of four fundamental structural types (beam, arch, truss, and suspension) and the special category of movable bridges (swing, lift, and bascule), showing how similar structural ideas have been addressed by different designers, refined over time, and rendered in various building materials." "Nearly one thousand archival photographs, plans, drawings, and engravings, comprehensively captioned and with the Library of Congress call number for each image, make this book an invaluable reference for architects, engineers, preservationists, and everyone thrilled by a structural work of art |
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| Physical Description: | 383 pages illustrations, map 29 cm 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-364) and index |
| ISBN: | 0393731367 9780393731361 |
The creation of bridges from vision to reality - the ultimate challenge of architecture, design and distance