Dan Cruickshank's Bridges Heroic Designs That Changed the World

Name: Dan Cruickshank's Bridges Heroic Designs That Changed the World
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ISBN: 9780007318186

ISBN-10: 0007318189

ISBN-13: 9780007318186

Edition: 2010

Authors: Dan Cruickshank

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Dan Cruickshank's personal, passionate and learned journey into the very awe-inspiring architectural icons which have transformed culture, society, industry and landscapes throughout the world ' bridges.Bridges define places. Imagine San Francisco without the Golden Gate Bridge, Manhattan without the Brooklyn Bridge, or Sydney without Sydney Harbour Bridge.Not only this, but they are spectacles of engineering, and have influenced the development of cultures, economies, environments and lives in more ways than we can count. Now, Dan Cruickshank looks at what bridges mean to us, and draws on some of his personal favourites from all over the world to tell the story of their architectural,…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Publication date: 10/28/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.94" wide x 9.69" long x 1.31" tall
Weight: 2.794
Language: English

Dan Cruickshank is an architectural historian and television presenter. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, has served on the Executive Committee of the Georgian Group and on the Architectural Panel of the National Trust. He has also been a visiting professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Sheffield and was editor for the RIBA and the University of London of the 20th edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture. His recent work includes The Secret History of Georgian London and for BBC television the series and accompanying books Around the World in 80 Treasures and Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture.