Main entry:

Billington, David P., 1927-2018.

Title & Author:

The art of structural design : a Swiss legacy / David P. Billington ; with a contribution by Jameson W. Doig.

Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Art Museum ; New Haven, Conn. : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2003.

Description:

211 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 26 x 26 cm

Notes:
"This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition "The art of structural design: a Swiss legacy", Princeton University Art Museum, March 8 - June 15, 2003". -- Verso of title page.
Jameson W. Doig is co-author of the chapter on Othmar Ammann. Cf. p. 5.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Wilhelm Ritter: the origins of Swiss structural art -- Robert Maillart: master of concrete forms -- Othmar H. Ammann: Master of steel bridges -- Pierre Lardy: from mathematics to aesthetics -- Heinz Isler: structural art in thin-shell concrete -- Christian Menn: structural art in bridges -- Selected major works -- Glossary of terms.

Summary:

"This book brings together for the first time the 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 pioneered the integration of the liberal arts into engineering education, argues that it is important to consider these men as artists, for aesthetics played a major role in their design philosophy. He explains that their shared approach to design was influenced significantly while they attended the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich; Maillart and Ammann studed with Ritter there, and Isler and Menn studed under Lardy. Billington focuses on the engineers' artistic approach to the design and construction of bridges and thin shell roofs, and he discusses their impressive individual contributions to structural engineering." "Generously illustrated, this book features reproductions of many original drawings as well as archival material, paintings, three-dimensional models, and newly commissioned photographs. Included in this study are many of the designers' most widely recognized and acclaimed projects, including the George Washington, Bayonne, Bronx-Whitestone, and Verrazano Narrows bridges by Ammann; the recently constructed Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge over the Charles River in Boston, the widest cable-stayed bridge in the United States, completed by Menn in 2002; the Schwandbach, Salginatobel, and Vessy bridges in Switzerland by Maillart, and Isler's graceful Heimberg Tennis Center and Grotzingen Outdoor Theater."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0300097867 (cloth)
9780300097863 (cloth)
(paper)
943812384
9438123847 (paper)

Subject:

Structural design.
Civil engineers Switzerland.
Architecture Aesthetics.
Constructions Calcul.
Ingénieurs civils Suisse.
Architecture Esthétique.
Civil engineers
Ontwerpen.
Bouwkunde.
Artistieke vormgeving.
Design architectural Suisse.
Ponts suspendus Catalogues d'exposition.
Switzerland

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
catalogs (documents)
Exhibition catalogs
History
Catalogs.
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Doig, Jameson W.
Princeton University. Art Museum.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227707
Call No.: TA658 .B54 2003
Status: Available