Architect and Engineer : A Study in Sibling Rivalry

by Andrew Saint

• ISBN13: 9780300124439
• ISBN10: 0300124430
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2008-03-28
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

How architects and engineers relate to one another has long been debated but never before addressed over a broad span of history. There are many controversial issues: about professional demarcation, about credit for design, about the value we attach to art in buildings, and about how that connects with advances in technique and efficiency.This pioneering and handsomely illustrated book enquires for the first time into the pattern of these relationships since the Renaissance. Concentrating particularly on Britain, France and the United States,Architect and Engineerlooks at what has actually taken place when architecture and engineering have interlocked. It examines projects ranging from the building of Waterloo Bridge to the evolution of the Chicago skyscraper, and personalities from Vauban to Brunel and Wright.The results of this impartial investigation may often surprise and provoke the reader. It is a study that has radical implications for the compartmentalized ways in which the history of architecture and construction has conventionally been addressed.

Author Biography

Andrew Saint is General Editor of the Survey of London and was previously professor of Architecture at Cambridge University. He is the author of Richard Norman Shaw, The Image of the Architect, and Towards a Social Architecture, all published by Yale University Press.

Table of Contents

'Imperial Works and Worthy Kings'	p. 9
France 1660-1789	p. 9
Britain 1660-1730	p. 33
America 1660-1900	p. 45
Iron	p. 65
Europe to 1850	p. 65
A Railway Interlude	p. 106
Britain and France 1850-1900	p. 131
America	p. 171
Concrete	p. 207
Styles of Concrete 1800-1914	p. 207
Styles of Partnership	p. 231
The Bridge	p. 281
The Masonry Bridge	p. 281
The Suspension Bridge	p. 314
Propriety and after	p. 346
Reconciliation	p. 365
Britain	p. 365
America	p. 394
Wide Spans, Natural Structures, Broad Horizons	p. 409
A Question of Upbringing	p. 431
School Culture 1750-1914	p. 431
Shop Culture at Bay: Britain 1750-1914	p. 456
Triumph of the Art School	p. 469
Index	p. 528
Illustration credits	p. 542
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