RECOMMENDED READING LIST ON STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING


STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING AND PHILOSOPHY
Addis, William.  “The Evolution of Structural Engineering Design Principles”  
Bulleit, William “Uncertainty in Structural Engineering”  (2008)       
Goldman, Steven “The Social Captivity of Engineering”  (1991)
Goldman, Steven “Why We Need a Philosophy of Engineering” (2004)     
Goodman, Richard "Karl Terzaghi: The Engineer As Artist"   
Ferguson, Eugene.  "Engineering and the Mind’s Eye" (1993)
Florman, Samuel.  The Existential Pleasures of Engineering (1976)
Hartoonian, Gevork  "Ontology of Construction" (1994)
Petroski, H., "To Engineer is Human" (1992)
Rice, Peter  "An Engineer Imagines"
Torroja, Eduado “The Philosophy of Structures”
Vick, Steven.   "Degrees of Belief"  (2002)


ENGINEERING, ART, AND ARCHITECTURE
Billington, D.P.. "Robert Maillart's Bridges; The Art of Engineering" (1979)
Collins, Peter.  "Concrete:  The Vision of New Architecture, A study of August Perret and his Precursors" (1958)
Cross, Hardy.  "Engineers and Ivory Towers" (1952)
Galileo, "Dialog Concerning Two New Sciences"
Gorden, J.E.  "The New Science of Strong Materials" (1976)  
Kahn, Louis "Conversation with Students"
Nervi, Pier Luigi.  "Structures" (1956)
Palladio, "The Four Books of Architecture"
Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth.  "On Growth and Form" (1917)
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene-Emmanuel.  Lectures on Architecture in Two Volumes (1872) (1987)
Vitruvius, The Ten Books on Architecture
Billington, D.P., The Tower and the Bridge" (1983)
Fuller, Bucky "Critical Path"
King, Ross.  "Brunelleschi's Dome"
Macaulay David. "Mill"
McCullough, David. "The Great Bridge"
Rand, Ayn.   "The Fountainhead"
Rasenberger, Jim.  "High Steel"
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