ROBERT MAILLART ~ MAX BILL 1st 1949 RARE Bridge Architecture Engineering RARE

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ROBERT MAILLART ~ MAX BILL 1st 1949 RARE Bridge Architecture Engineering RARE :
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ROBERT MAILLARTBILL, Max (Editor)Published byVerlag Fur Architektur / Les Editions d\'Architecture, Zurich, 1949.FIRST EDITION. Cloth hardcover bright tight clean very good +++ hardcover ( small vintage atractive bookshop label bottom inner edge inside rear cover ) in DUSTJACKET with small edge tears; upper spine head edge small tears light to lower; and general wear else fully intact 180 pp. Photographs and plans throughout. Text in German, French and English.
\"Robert Maillart(6 February 1872 – 5 April 1940) was aSwisscivil engineerwho revolutionized the use of structuralreinforced concretewith such designs as the three-hinged arch and the deck-stiffened arch for bridges, and the beamless floor slab and mushroom ceiling for industrial buildings. HisSalginatobel(1929–1930) andSchwandbach(1933) bridges changed the aesthetics and engineering of bridge construction dramatically and influenced decades of architects and engineers after him. In 1991 the Salginatobel Bridge was declared anInternational Historic Civil Engineering Landmarkby theAmerican Society of Civil Engineers...\" wikipedia
\"Max Bill(22 December 1908 – 9 December 1994) was aSwissarchitect,artist,painter,typeface designer,industrial designerandgraphic designer...In 1944, Bill became a professor at the school of arts inZurich. In 1953, alongsideInge Aicher-SchollandOtl Aicher, he founded theUlm School of Design(German:Hochschule für Gestaltung - HfG Ulm) inUlm,Germany, a design school initially created in the tradition of theBauhausand which later developed a new design education approach integrating art and science. The school was notable for its inclusion ofsemioticsas a field of study. The school closed in 1968. Faculty and students includedTomás Maldonado,Otl Aicher,Josef Albers,Johannes Itten, John Lottes, Walter Zeischegg, andPeter Seitz.

Bill was a professor at theHochschule für bildende Künste Hamburgand chair of Environmental Design from 1967 to 1974. In 1973 he became an associate member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Science, Literature and Fine Art inBrussels. In 1976 he became a member of theBerlin Academy of Arts. In addition to his teaching, Bill wrote and lectured extensively on art, architecture and design, appearing at symposiums and design conferences around the world. In particular, he wrote books aboutLe Corbusier,Kandinsky,Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and artistic theory.[7]...\"wikipedia