Bridge: The Architecture of Connection    Lucy Blakstad    August / Birkhäuser    

     ISBN 3-7643-6643-5   2002 – This book discusses the many meanings of bridges

     through the ages, from clapper bridge to millennium bridges, from Brooklyn to

     Mostar.  The book to choose for the human aspects of bridge building.

Bridges    Fritz Leonhardt   Architectural Press   ISBN 0 85139 764 6

     1982 – This excellent book, by an eminent bridge-builder, discusses many aspects

     of design, including the appearance, as well as the technical aspects, of bridges.

The Creation of Bridges    David Bennett    Aurum    ISBN 1 85410 651 1

     1999 – Well presented book with superb photographs, and sections on history,

     structural principles, and individual bridges and engineers.

Bridges   D J Brown   Michael Beazley   ISBN 1 85732 163 4

     1993 – Covers both engineers and their creations in detail, as well as principles.

Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America  

     Henry Petroski  Alfred A Knopf     Review of Henry Petroski –

     http://www.amsci.org/AMSCI/bookshelf/Leads96/Petroski96-07.html

Modern British Bridges   D Henry and J A Jerome   C R Books

     1965 – Technical information, structural drawings and photographs of bridges built

     in the 1950s and 1960s.

Developments in Structural Form   R J Mainstone   Allen Lane / Penguin

     ISBN 0 14 00 6503 2 paperback   0 71 39 0333 3 hardback

     1975 – Wide ranging, non-mathematical treatment of many types of architectural 

     and engineering structures with many diagrams and photographs.

A Span of Bridges  H J Hopkins   David and Charles

     Good on history, people and structures.

The World’s Great Bridges  H Shirley-Smith   Phoenix, London,  

     and  Harper and Row,  NY   An excellent book in many ways.

Bridges and Their Builders   D B Steinman and S R Watson   

     1941   G P Putnam’s Sons, NY    1957    Dover

     This book is a very good source for the history of bridge building and bridge

     builders, as well as on the technical aspects of the subject.    

Bridges of Britain  Geoffrey N Wright  D Bradford Barton Ltd

     1973 – Monochrome photographs of bridges of all ages, with informative notes

     about history and construction.  A very good source for old bridges.

The Guinness Book of Structures  John H Stephens  Guinness Superlatives Ltd  

     ISBN 0 900424 28 1 – Much more than a list of data, it provides many insights.

Structures: Or why things don’t fall down  J E Gordon    Pelican

     Entertainingly written, technically informative, excellent value.

The New Science of Strong Materials: or why you don’t fall through the floor  

     J E Gordon   Pelican

     Entertainingly written, technically informative, excellent value.

Building Structures  Malcolm Millais  E and FN Spon (Chapman and Hall) 

     ISBN 0 419 21970 6 -1997 – Structural principles clearly explained using a large

     number of drawings and no mathematics.

Fundamental Structural Analysis  W J Spencer  Macmillan Education  

     ISBN 0 333 43467 6 – Mathematical treatment of structures – complementary to

     the book by Millais.

The Builders   National Geographic Society   ISBN 0-87044-836-6    

     1992 – Superb photographs of bridges, buildings, dams and other structures.

List of books

Books

Review of Henry Petroski

Calatrava bridges

Calatrava books

Bridge engineering handbook

Severn bridges books by Chris Witts 

A Century of Bridges – Sketches, grid references and historical notes about every bridge over the river Severn, by someone who has known the river for many years.

Along the Severn from Source to Sea – Fascinating historical and geographical notes about the river Severn and its towns.