Traversinersteg.Exquisitely ex·qui·site adj. 1. Characterized by intricate and beautiful design or execution: an exquisite chalice. 2. photographed by Wilfried Dechau and beautifully produced by publisher Ernst Wasmuth, Traversinersteg is an account of the making of a timber suspension bridge suspension bridge: see bridge. in April to August 2005 by the Swiss engineer Jurg Conzett across the Traversiner Gorge, Switzerland. The unusual format (27.6 x 38.2cm) gives appropriate scale to a series of mainly full-page photographs on the 104 pages, printed as four-colour black-and-white. Unusually, the people who designed and made the bridge feature as much as the construction and the final product itself, an oblique o·blique adj. Situated in a slanting position; not transverse or longitudinal. oblique slanting; inclined. comment on the values of architectural and construction photography as well as a record of those involved. With concise texts in German and English, including a contribution by the great German engineer Jorg Schlaich, this is a coffee table book which, happily, is well worth opening, and marks another chapter in Dechau's commingling Combining things into one body. The term commingling is most often applied to funds or assets. When a fiduciary, a person entrusted with the management of funds other than his or her own in trust, mixes trust money with that of others, the fiduciary is commingling of architecture, engineering and photography. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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