{"product_id":"bridges","title":"Bridges","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe unusual size of this album--a foot and a half long by a half-foot high--evokes the elongated structures that it extols. To illustrate the dozens of bridges Dupreselects, she uses two-page spreads, featuring a beautiful black-and-white photo, often a vintage nineteenth-century image, and pairs it with a page of inset pictures and text summarizing essential facts of design, construction, and history. Eye-catching book design is the essence here, and although bridge enthusiasts have more detailed sources of knowledge, such as Henry Petroski's Engineers of Dreams (1995), they will demand a visual feast at some point. Dupreserves up the celebrity spans, naturally, but she also displays bridges that don't loudly brag about themselves, for instance the humble iron-truss bridges one sees in rural America. Because of its shape, this book will be hard to shelve so displaying it seems to be the best option--and the cover of the Brooklyn Bridge in its cathedral-like magnificence ensures that many patrons will stop in their tracks and look. - Gilbert Taylor; 128p - YA\/L: For architecture students and browsers. SZ-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Architecture, Buildings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Black Dog \u0026amp; Leventhal Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781884822759\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Black Dog \u0026 Leventhal Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £7.12","offer_id":47918759968945,"sku":"SB-1884822754-C4","price":7.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1884822754.jpg?v=1789249582","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/bridges","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}