Robert Maillart: Builder, Designer, and Artist

by David P. Billington

Book Overview

This comprehensive biography traces the life and works of Robert Maillart, one of the most important engineers and designers of the twentieth century. His career developed around a central issue of modern technological society: the debate between two antithetical views of engineering opposing applied science, which relied on general mathematical theories for understanding structures against design, which Maillart championed. Maillart considered structures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521057426
• ISBN13: 9780521057424
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 11.0"