The Tower and the Bridge:
The New Art of Structural Engineering
David P. Billington

Paper | 1985 | $34.95 / £24.95
316 pp.

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Review:

"David P. Billington is clearly moved by great structures--he means it when he says that major works of structural engineering are like the art of poetry, while architecture is the art of prose. . . . This is a book on structural engineering that sees its subject as part of the larger drama of history and culture, and for the breadth of this stance alone, it is impressive."--The New York Times Book Review

Other Princeton books by David P. Billington:

• Power, Speed, and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century.
• Robert Maillart's Bridges: The Art of Engineering.

Subject Areas:

• Art and Architecture
• History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science

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