This book titled "Nuevos Puentes/New Bridges" is a rare find for anyone interested in technology and engineering. It is a nonfiction narrative type book with 192 pages and is published in Spanish and English languages. The book is written by Joan Roig and published by G.I.L.I Editorial S.A., Gustavo in the 1990s.
The book is new and sealed, making it an excellent gift for anyone interested in civil or bridges topics.
This book is brand new in the original shrink-wrap but there is some damage to the lower corner ----SEE PHOTOS.
"The principal aim of the present book is to address the theme of the bridge not from the standpoint of engineering, the approach adopted by most other books on the subject, nor from a superficial or merely expository perspective, but from an architectural point of view; in other words, giving emphasis to factores such as composition, aesthetics, historical sensibility, context, urban implantation, and those architectonic values manifested by bridges in general.
This differential viewpoint is developed in two parts. One the one hand, an introductory text provides and explanatory summary of the history of the bridge, seeking to demonstrate the continuous presence of essential architectonic values in the conception of these structures from classical antiquity through to the early years of the 20th century; on the other hand, a wide-ranging selection presents thirty exemplary bridges designed or built between 1980 and 1994, grouped in chapters devoted to City and public space, History and metaphor, Construction and discipline and Structure an monument, giving particular attention to those bridges whose conception and form places them on the frontier between architecture and engineering."