Robert Maillart
Robert Maillart
£46.00
GBPThis 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 not merely works of utility but also as works of art. As utilitarian objects, he created a series of innovations of lasting significance. Aesthetically, Maillart shaped his three innovations in concrete to create surprising and often stunning new forms. Providing an analysis of these innovations, this biography also connects Maillart's aesthetic ideas with the private and professional context in which he worked.
- The first biography of Robert Maillart
- The first book to present the central twentieth-century controversy between the applied science and the design view of engineering
- The first biography to detail the connection between major technical innovations and stunning visual designs in engineering
Product details
March 2008Paperback
9780521057424
368 pages
279 × 210 × 19 mm
0.83kg
240 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Student and designer:
- 1872–1901
- 2. Designer and builder:
- 1902–1909
- 3. Builder and millionaire:
- 1909–1914
- 4. War and revolution:
- 1914–1919
- 5. Scholar and designer:
- 1920–1927
- 6. Solitary designer:
- 1927–1932
- 7. Images from within:
- 1932–1934
- 8. The great debate:
- 1934–1938
- 9. Honored at last:
- 1938–1940
- Notes.
