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AN ENGINEER IMAGINES BY: PETER RICE
AN ENGINEER IMAGINES BY: PETER RICE
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FEATURES: AN ENGINEER IMAGINES BY: PETER RICE
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A) CONDITION BOOK: FINE - LARGE TRADE PAPERBACK
B) CONDITION DUST JACKET: NOT ISSUED
C) FIRST EDITION SECOND PRINTING - ELLIPSIS PUBLISHERS 1996
D) NOTE: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A HUGELY IMPORTANT 20TH CENTURY ENGINEER [POMPIDOU CENTER, SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE AND OTHERS] WITH THE SOUL OF AN ARTIST. PUBLISHED AFTER RICE'S DEATH. SCARCE. 189 PAGES.
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AN ENGINEER IMAGINES BY: PETER RICE
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Peter Rice (1935-1992) was perhaps the most influential structural engineer of this century. The hundreds of buildings he worked on include such masterpieces as the Sydney Opera House, the Pompidou Centre, and Menil Collection, and Lloyd's of London. This is Peter Rice's autobiography. He tells the stories behind his best-known works, and describes his childhood in Ireland, his experiences with other great engineers including Jean Prouve and Ove Arup, and his views on materials - glass and polycarbonate, steel and concrete, stone, fabric. But above all, An Engineer Imagines is about the creative, humanist role of the engineer.
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Now in paperback, this is Peter Rice's autobiography. Rice was widely acclaimed as the greatest structural engineer of his generation, a man whom, in Renzo Piano's words, could design structures 'like a pianist who can play with his eyes shut'. Working with many of the world's greatest architects on buildings that became icons of contemporary architecture, he brought a uniquely poetic feeling to his work.
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