Steel Structures Detailing Guide

Those of you who have been following my journey through the wonderful world of steel for a while will have noticed that I am a big fan of the steel…

Müngsten Bridge is the highest railway bridge in Germany. The bridge is 107 metres high and spans the valley of the river Wupper. Originally the bridge was named Kaiser-Wilhelm-Brücke to…

Victor Laloux (d. 13 july 1937), the architect of the Gare d’Orsay and Gare de Tours.An eclectic architect, Victor Laloux was also a great workshop “boss” at the Ecole des…

Richard Buckminster Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. Fuller developed numerous…

The Cubzac railway bridge is a French steel railway bridge located in the Gironde department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It is a lattice girder bridge put into service on 11…

Paul Andreu, born on July 10, 1938 in Caudéran, France. He was the architect of 20 airports around the world, including Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, which he designed at the age of 29…

Beverley David Thorne was born 9 July 1924 in California.Few men deserve the title ‘Man of Steel’, but Thorne definitely does. Thorne designed more than 150 homes in his lifetime.…

Philip Johnson (b. 8 july 1906 in Cleveland, Ohio) The journey started exactly 3 months ago, and so far it has been an exciting ride through the history of steel…

Michel Virlogeux, born on 7 July 1946 in Vichy, is a civil engineer and one of France’s leading specialists in the design of bridge and viaduct structures. He graduated from…

Edward Killingsworth (1917–2004) was an American architect. He is best known as a participant in Arts & Architecture’s Case Study program in the mid-1950s. He designed and built Case Study…