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Title: Bridges by Judith Dupre, Frank O. Gehry ISBN: 1884822754 Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub Pub. Date: October, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.98 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Rating: 5
Summary: Wide format fun for bridge lovers!
Comment: Show an average person the Golden Gate or the Brooklyn Bridge and watch their eyes light up. Tell that average person some history or what design methods were used, and watch their eyes glaze over. History, technology and entertainment is a difficult mix, especially in print, but Judith Dupre' combines them wonderfully in "Bridges" - a worthy follow-up to her best selling "Skyscrapers". Fifty of history's most famous spans are detailed in this wonderful collage of text, photos, graphics and trivia bits. Bridges are wide, and so is this book, which measures a full 36 inches when opened. One most appealing aspect of Judith Dupre's work is the many "sidebar" views she takes of her subjects. Pages are devoted to covered bridges, portable bridges used in war, bridge catastrophes, even "Bridges in the Movies". An interview with the Guinness Book record holder for "most suspension bridges walked across" offers a personal dimension, and mirrors the passion that many readers no doubt feel for these creations. This is a fun book, suitable for the aficionado or for people who would like to enjoy the subject without being overpowered. The author is not afraid to have fun with her subject, and that makes "Bridges" a fun book you will enjoy for a long time! - Jeff Herzer
Rating: 5
Summary: A book to treasure
Comment: 'Bridges' is an excellent book to have in your library. It also makes the perfect gift to give someone who has an interest in not just architecture, but history as well. It gives a brief history on each bridge together with very large high quality B/W photos. An excellent follow up from Dupre's first in the series 'Skyscapers'. I hope Judith Dupre is considering to continue the series with another book in the same style. A book on 'Stadiums' perhaps. If you loved 'Skyscrapers' you will find 'Bridges' just as rewarding, a must to add to your collection. Thanks Judith!
Rating: 5
Summary: So often we don't even realize what we're driving on
Comment: Every day we traverse bridges in our daily lives, scarcely to give them thought. Dupre pulls back the veil and brings highlight to these engineering feats. From the simple to the revolutionary, we are brought on a tour of bridges through time, and around the globe. The superlatives are here: the longest suspension bridge, highest, oldest. But it's not a book about the superlative; it's about what moves us forward in our quest for technology, and for our ability to move across space in a timely manner. It highlights those bridges that mean something to us: where the Romans said "let's make a permanent way of moving water." Where politics came into play and tried to prevent bridges that we can't imagine not being there like the Golden Gate Bridge. Bridges become important to history such as the ones over the Rhine during the World War. And sometimes when we make mistakes and things don't work out like we planned - the most spectacular example being the Tacoma Narrows Bridge that lasted all of 4 months.
But as she shows in her book "Skyscrapers," there is an intertwining of form and function, and where man built up in buildings, he builds out via bridges. The book's design even emphasizes - where Skyscrapers was an extremely tall and thin book, Bridges goes for width, to try and bring the spans into the range of the printed page. Yet so often, the task is not possible, and even on the wide pages the bridge disappears into the distance.
The book looks at the engineering involved, but does not dwell on it. Rather it celebrates how the improvement of engineering practices have been able to move man forward. A veritable love poem to something that we often take too much for granted.
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Title: Skyscrapers by Judith Dupre, Judith Dupre, Philip Johnson ISBN: 1884822452 Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.98 |
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Title: Bridges: Three Thousand Years of Defying Nature by David J. Brown ISBN: 0760312346 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Churches by Judith Dupre, Mario Botta ISBN: 0060194383 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: 30 Bridges by Matthew Wells ISBN: 0823053547 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Creation of Bridges by David Bennett ISBN: 0785810536 Publisher: BookSales Pub. Date: 15 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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