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Item Number: 131548
Title: EIFFEL by Eiffel
Author: Couperie-Eiffel, Philippe
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783283012397
Description: Zurich: Olms, 2014. 33cm., hardcover, 176pp. with 200 photos. English text. Summary: is a direct descendant of Gustave Eiffel, the creator of the supreme symbol of Paris, the beacon that radiates the city’s aura across the world, but it would be short-sighted to restrict the work of Gustave Eiffel (1832–1923) to the tower that bears his name, despite his struggle to gain acceptance for his utopian vision. From the age of 26, when the young engineer was entrusted with the construction of a railway bridge in Bordeaux, both firing his ambition and earning him the respect of his colleagues, Eiffel made his mark on every corner of the globe with his striking and distinctive designs for over 300 buildings, including the Douro Bridge in Portugal, the Garabit Viaduct in France, Pest Station in Hungary, the Post Office in Saigon and even the framework of the Statue of Liberty in the USA. •In 1892, the 60-year-old was crushed by a judgment that wrongly implicated him in the Panama Canal scandal, which had erupted three years earlier. With his reputation in ruins, Eiffel decided to withdraw from the public eye ... only to enter a phase of still greater creativity. With his innovative design for the first aeroplane to have wings beneath the fuselage, his research into aerodynamics and his development of the science of meteorology, he revealed himself to be a polymath as well as a visionary of the industrial age.
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