The Happy Pontist

The last three posts in this series have covered the views on "good bridge design" of Santiago Calatrava , Fritz Leonhardt , and C...

In recent posts, I've discussed the views of Santiago Calatrava and Fritz Leonhardt on what makes a good bridge design. This time, it...

In the previous post , I took a look at Santiago Calatrava's prescriptions for how the quality of bridge design can be judged. Often see...

The previous post in this thread discussed the modernist article of faith that informs most engineering criticism: that bridges should be e...

In the previous posting in this thread, I discussed the public criticism (and it's lack of assistance to the unfortunate client) surrou...

In a series of recent posts, I've wondered why there's so little public criticism of poor bridge design . Perhaps engineers feel res...

In a recent post, I noted that structural engineering degree courses make little or no attempt to help students develop a critical attitude ...

In the last post on this topic, I covered Alan Holgate's ideas for a practice of structural engineering criticism. Holgate's book T...

In recent posts I've wondered why poor bridge designs receive so little public criticism. If you go back into the times of the Stephens...

In a previous post , I noted that bridge design competitions often throw up designs that are uneconomic, unmaintainable and in some cases ev...

Late last year, I attended a talk by architect Cezary Bednarski, which ran through his experiences in the bridge design competition arena. I...