What’s more ordinary than a bridge? However, a bridge is a living structure that has to be designed, built and maintained. Here is our interview with a legendary bridge designer, who is also a man skilled in the art.
What’s more ordinary than a bridge? However, a bridge is a living structure that has to be designed, built and maintained. Here is our interview with a legendary bridge designer, who is also a man skilled in the art.
Filming & editing: Ariel Suhamy. Interview by Ivan Jablonka.
by , 29 August 2019
Some of the photos in the video were taken from the following websites:
• Pierre d’angle
• The website of the Millau Viaduct
Cité de l’Architecture
• Film on the construction of the Bosphorus Bridge
• 3D digital version of the Normandy Bridge
Ivan Jablonka, « The Spirit of Bridges. An Interview with Michel Virlogeux », Books and Ideas , 29 August 2019. ISSN : 2105-3030. URL : https://booksandideas.net/The-Spirit-of-Bridges.html
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