Bridges: 0 (Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks) - Tapa dura

Cleary, Richard L.

 
9780393731361: Bridges: 0 (Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks)
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ISBN 10: 0393731367 ISBN 13: 9780393731361
Editorial: WW Norton & Co, 2007

Sinopsis

Bridges are such ubiquitous features of the built environment that we cross most of them barely acknowledging their presence. Certain bridges, however, command attention: for their utility facilitating travel from here to there; for their size, setting, beauty, or historical associations. Ordinary or spellbinding, every bridge is a response to a problem―the spanning of a river or other obstacle, solved more or less elegantly. This visual sourcebook 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. A special feature is "A Call for Preservation" of the American bridge engineering heritage by Eric DeLony, formerly chief of the Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service.

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Richard L. Cleary is associate professor in the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin, and lives in Austin.

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Editorial
WW Norton & Co
Año de publicación
2007
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ISBN 10 
0393731367
ISBN 13 
9780393731361
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Número de páginas
336
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