Masterworks of Technology: The story of creative engineering, architecture, and design by E. E. Lewis, Prometheus, £28, ISBN 1591022436 Reviewed by Barry Fox
THE Barcelona tour guide showing us a huge new stadium told how the roof had been built on the ground and then jacked into position. Then he explained how the cathedral designed more than a century ago by Gaudi is being finished. Without the architect, who died in 1926, the builders are relying on the aid of computer-aided design (CAD) tools.
Throughout it all, two businessmen were talking to each other about “market price points” and “corporate…
