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Frame and Form (estructura y forma) was born with the modest desire to promote and disseminate structural design culture. The content of this blog is based on small articles where synthesized information is provided about accomplishments , events, history, contests and curiosities of marked structural works like bridges or buildings. These capsules of information intended [...]

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25 January, 2010

The Art of Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy

Once again David P. Billington focuses its work around Swiss engineers, this time explicitly. The book is part of the exposure homonymous organized by the Princeton University Art Museum In 2003.

17 August, 2009

Robert Maillart and the Art of Reinforced Concrete

In this book, David P. Billington describes one by one the structures engineer and builder Robert Maillart. Billington examines the work of the famous Swiss engineer focusing on the evolution of forms and how are you influencing the perception of the viewer.

It is interesting to see how developed Maillart's reinforced concrete limits, a [...]