Architect and Engineer: A Study in Sibling Rivalry

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Andrew Saint

Format: Unknown
Pages: 541
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: Feb 2008
Stock Code: 62208
ISBN: 9780300124439

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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 looks for the first time into the pattern of these relationships since the Renaissance. Concentrating particularly on Britain, France and the United States, Architect and Engineer: A Study in Sibling Rivalry looks 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 Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Frank Lloyd Wright. The results of this impartial investigation may often surprise and provoke the reader. It is a study that has radical implications for the compartmentalised ways in which the history of architecture and construction has conventionally been addressed.