The Art of Engineering with David Billington

The origins, symbolism, and design of the Washington Monument and the Eiffel Tower and an introduction to the concept of structural art by David P. Billingon '50, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus.

Structural art's three tenets of efficiency, economy, and elegance with a comparative critical analysis of the Eiffel Tower and the St. Louis Gateway Arch as major metal monuments, as presented by David P. Billingon '50, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus.

The origins of structural art in the late 18th/ early 19th century, the use of industrialized iron for building, and the creation of British metal forms, sa presented by David P. Billingon '50, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus.

Three major long-span railroad bridges from the 19th century as works of structural art, as presented by David P. Billingon '50, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus.

John Augustus Roebling's suspension bridges, with a detailed focus upon his iconic Brooklyn Bridge, as presented by David P. Billingon '50, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

A comparison of various suspension bridges, description of the creation of Othmar Ammann's George Washington Bridge, and deconstruction of the failure of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge by David P. Billingon '50, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus.

The influence of Gothic cathedrals on modern day structural art and compares the forms of Gothic cathedrals with skyscrapers, as presented by David P. Billingon '50, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus.

The Swiss tradition of structural art, as presented by David P. Billingon '50, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus.

The concept of "prestressing" in bridge building and a discussion of the structural artists who employed this technique in their work, as presented by David P. Billingon '50, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus.

The bridges of Robert Maillart and Christian Menn, as presented by David P. Billingon '50, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus.