In this book, pub­lished by the “Birkhäuser Ver­lag”, Ur­sula Baus and Mike Schlaich pre­sent from an ar­chi­tec­tural and en­gi­neer­ing point of view: the con­struc­tion, de­sign and his­tory of pedes­trian bridges, with a fo­cus on the one sec­tion of the struc­ture that is re­served only for pedes­tri­ans and cy­clists. The de­sign con­cept is based on the prin­ci­pal of a wash­ing line, cre­at­ing ex­cep­tion­ally strik­ing pages. This in turn re­flects the di­ver­sity of the bridges and the in­di­vid­ual per­cep­tion of these.

The vi­sion fo­rum “Build­ing with Car­bon” was held at the TU Berlin in the spring of 2014. Lec­tur­ers, en­gi­neers and ar­chi­tects dis­cussed the use of car­bon fi­bres in con­struc­tion. The ma­te­r­ial – light, strong and durable – is still rarely used in this field, but it of­fers many prospects for the fu­ture. Moni­teurs de­signed the ap­pear­ance for this event. The key vi­sual rep­re­sents the is­sue of car­bon: a ma­te­r­ial seem­ingly in mo­tion, while the two colours in the vi­sual are slightly off­set. The ty­pog­ra­phy ra­di­ates a par­tic­u­lar clar­ity and pres­ence.

Glass mesh domes as canopies re­fine build­ings and ur­ban build­ing en­sem­bles. This book is the first com­pre­hen­sive dis­play of de­sign, con­struc­tion and fil­i­greed cal­cu­la­tion of dou­ble-curved, wide-span glazed shells. The geo­met­ric prin­ci­ples of the de­sign of the shell struc­tures are clear and eas­ily com­pre­hen­si­ble, and are easy to use with com­mer­cial CAD pro­gramme mod­ules. Us­ing real-life ex­am­ples from the years 1989 to 2014, the lat­est meth­ods of form-find­ing cal­cu­la­tions and op­ti­mi­sa­tion through the com­plex in­ter­ac­tion of sta­tic equi­lib­rium, form and topol­ogy are ex­plained prac­ti­cally. The re­sults are in­tel­li­gent mesh de­signs with min­i­mal weight.