Bridges and Infrastructures
Editors: Ana Tostões, Ivan Blasi
Guest editors: Kyo Takenouchi, Ola Wedebrunn
Keywords: Modern Movement,
Modern architecture,
Modern bridges,
Modern infrastructures,
Modern engineering.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/45.I.T7P8E0FS
The search on Bridges and Infrastructures has to do with a matter of connecting. To launch bridges seems to be a kind of life requirement, as far as it is the way to connect sides, which means improving relations and energies, desire and intelligence. Bridges and Infrastructures have the function of connecting pieces of land and the role of creating a connected world. The matter is to make links and establish a network. In fact, it is a global network made of works of art, which have a physical and material presence balancing between values such as economy and elegance and providing a better life for every man. Seeking audaciously for innovation, research contributes to these large scale structures as it has been improving material capacities and technical creation. It is a huge field that lay infinite possibilities for art and science to perceive changes of social, aesthetic, technical standards and norms.
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Editorial
An Aesthetically Sublime Second Nature
Ana Tostões
Essays
Bridges and Infrastructure
Kyo Takenouchi, Ola Wedebrunn Bridges of Modernity
Jürg Conzett Robert Maillart’s Innovative Use of Concrete
Denis Zastavni The Bridge Over the Lake: Spanning Across Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela
Hannia Gómez, Rino Montiel The Work of Eugène Freyssinet: The Most Significant Bridges of his Career
Pierre Jartoux Eduardo Torroja: The Alloz Aqueduct
Carlos García Vázquez Structure and Form: The Theory of ‘Minimal Surfaces’ and the Bridge over the Basento River by Sergio Musmeci
Rinaldo Capomolla Cable-Stayed Bridges: The Düsseldorf Bridge Family
Annette Bögle Eïtai and Kiyosu Bridges over the Sumida: Japanese Bridge Design in the 1920s
Daijiro Kitagawa Finding Modern Japanese Bridges: Stone, Wood and Steel
Norihide Imagawa, Shinsuke Suematsu Cable Supported Bridges across Straits in Denmark
Niels Jørgen Gimsing Sir Ove Arup: The Design of Bridges
Jørgen Nissen Bridge of Dreams: The Penguin Pool, London Zoo
John Allan Concrete’s Furthest North. Early 20th Century Heritage of Modern Civil Engineering in Iceland
Pétur H. Ármannsson An Intriguing Work of Engineering and Architecture: The Collonnade Bridge in Piešt’any
Henrieta Moravčíková Lincoln Park Passerelle: Rainbow Bridge
Tim Samuelson Mizen Head Footbridge or ‘Building a Bridge, to Build a Bridge’
Kieran Ruane Bridging the Gap
Mari Hvattum
Documentation Issues
The docomomo Japan, 150 selections – Future and Legacy
Koichiro Kanematsu
Book Reviews
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