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What Is a Bridge? The Making of Calatrava's Bridge in Seville

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This is an useful and complete book describing the construction of Alamilo Bridge in Seville, Spain, for the Universal Exposition in 1992. With step-by-step descriptions from the project to the finished bridge, full of pictures, graphics, calculations, structural and design analysis, costs, detailed drawings showing the assembly details drawn by Alberto Diaz-Hermidas; a complete publication including description of the local government tramitation. This book written by Spiro Pollalis is a must for students and graduated architects and engineers with interest in construction of unconventional bridges like Santiago Calatrava's works, now finishing an expansion project for Milwaukee Art Museum (inauguration probably by Oct. 2001)

It's strictly a technical manual. There are other, better books available to admirers of Santiago Calatrava and his creative and dynamnic bridge designs.

..Congratulations to authors..topic,presentation, graphics, photos..all together are excellent...This is a book which gives an in-depth presentation of design/construction process of Alamillo Bridge.Detailed structural drawings, structural analysis-design and its construction ..everything is in this book..in detail.....Very useful for structural engineers and everyone interested in bridge design.