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Tables of Contents for Robert Maillart
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Illustrations
xiii
8
Preface
xxi
6
Acknowledgments
xxvii
Introduction
1
2
CHAPTER ONE Student and Designer, 1872-1901
3
23
THE SYNTHESIS OF CULTURES: BERN AND ZURICH
3
7
Belgian and German-Swiss
3
2
Discipline and Play
5
1
Engineering in Zurich: The Swiss Synthesis
6
2
Ritter and the Bridge: Maillart and Ammann
8
1
Ritter and the Design View
9
1
STONE VERSUS CONCRETE: ZURICH, 1894-1899
10
7
The New Material and the Tradition of Mass
10
3
Ritter and the Big Bridge
13
1
Maillart and Hennebique
14
3
THE SHIFT OF VISION: ZUOZ, 1894-1901
17
9
Zuoz: The First Major Innovation
17
1
The Meaning of the Zuoz Design
18
2
A Proposal
20
2
An Inner Companion
22
1
Together in Zurich
23
3
CHAPTER TWO Designer and Builder, 1902-1909
26
30
THE NEW FIRM, 1902-1904
26
8
Independence
26
1
The First Success
27
4
The St. Gallen Bridge: More Rational and More Beautiful
31
1
Maillart Against the Authorities
32
2
THE FIRST MASTERPIECE: TAVANASA, 1902-1905
34
7
Billwil and Zuoz
34
1
The Return to Zuoz
35
3
The Tavanasa Breakthrough
38
2
Melan, Morsch, and Ritter
40
1
A FAREWELL TO BRIDGES, 1904-1909
41
15
From Basel to Davos
41
3
Building a Reputation
44
3
Builder and Architect
47
1
The Safety of Reinforced Concrete
48
1
Maillart Transforms the Floor
49
3
The Hidden Wall
52
1
Zurich University
52
4
CHAPTER THREE Builder and Millionaire, 1909-1914
56
28
THE BIG BRIDGE COMPETITIONS, 1909-1912
56
13
Suprise at Rheinfelden
56
2
Laufenburg
58
2
Aarburg
60
3
The Perils of Bridge Construction
63
1
The Stone Hand of Moser
64
2
The Lorraine Bridge Competition
66
1
Moser and Maillart
67
1
The Outward Turn
68
1
THE TENSIONS OF SUCCESS
69
8
Business and Family
69
3
Voltrastrasse: Maillart as Patron
72
1
Career Conflicts
73
1
Personalities and the Code: Practice or Research?
74
2
Teaching and the Conflict of Ideals
76
1
THE MOVE TOWARD RUSSIA
77
7
St. Petersburg, 1912-1913
77
3
Riga, 1914
80
2
Riga Coast in the Summer of 1914
82
2
CHAPTER FOUR War and Revolution, 1914-1919
84
13
RUSSIA, 1914-1916
84
4
The Dunes of August
84
1
Riga Winter
84
1
Retreat: Petrograd to the Ukraine
85
1
Kharkov, 1915-1916
86
2
MARIA IN RUSSIA, 1914-1916
88
4
The Inward Turn
88
2
Maria
90
1
Maillart and Edmond
91
1
REVOLUTION AND RUIN
92
5
Maillart's Millions
92
1
The Continuing Revolution
93
1
Escape
94
1
Constantinople, Thessalonika, and Home
95
2
CHAPTER FIVE Scholar and Designer, 1920-1927
97
33
BURNING THE SACRED FIRE
97
4
Deep in Debt
97
1
Paris and Geneva
98
1
The Burned-Out European
99
1
Father and Daughter
100
1
ATTACKING THE ESTABLISHMENT: EDUCATION AND THEORY, 1920-1924
101
6
The Geneva Brochure
101
1
The Critique of Education
102
4
The Shear-Center Controversy
106
1
ATTACKING THE ESTABLISHMENT: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE, 1920-1924
107
6
Alpine Failures
107
3
The Elegance of Rivets
110
1
Rohn Controls the Zahringer Bridge Competition
111
2
NEW BUSINESS, NEW FORMS, 1921-1924
113
8
Rehabilitation
113
1
A Radically New Form
114
2
The Chiasso Shed
116
3
The Fundamental Ideas of 1924
119
2
REVIVAL THROUGH BRIDGES, 1925-1927
121
9
The Bridge as Poem: Valtschielbach
121
1
The Bridge as Play: Chatelard
122
4
The Bridge as Novel: Grand Fey
126
4
CHAPTER SIX Solitary Designer, 1927-1932
130
32
COLLEAGUES AND FAMILY, 1927-1930
130
6
The Professor, the Editor, and the Builder
130
2
Isolation and Routine
132
2
Eduard Blumer
134
2
FROM TAVANASA TO SALGINATOBEL, 1927-1930
136
10
Ruin on the Rhine
136
1
The Climb to the Salginatobel
136
3
The Salginatobel Bridge
139
1
Unveiling at Salginatobel
140
2
The Salginatobel and the Lorraine Bridges
142
4
WILDERNESS BRIDGES, 1930-1931
146
9
The Curved Bridge at Klosters
146
3
Lost Bridges and Profitable Drawings
149
1
Ammann and Maillart
150
1
Maillart Expands in Zurich
151
2
The Microscopic Bridges of Bern
153
2
RECOGNITION AND CALAMITY
155
7
The Architect and the Historian
155
1
Maillart in English
156
2
A New Generation
158
1
The Good Samaritan
159
1
Aging and a Death
160
2
CHAPTER SEVEN Images from Within, 1932-1934
162
27
THE INTERWAR CONGRESSES
162
4
Rohn and the Congress Idea, 1922-1928
162
1
The Structural Congress of Vienna, 1928
163
1
From Vienna to Liege, 1930
164
1
The Paris Congress, 1932
165
1
MAILLART'S METHOD, 1932
166
8
The Giubiasco Bridge
166
1
The Toss Bridge
167
2
Rossgraben
169
1
Success in St. Gallen
170
4
THE SCHWANDBACH BRIDGE, 1933
174
9
Schwandbach Design
174
4
Analysis in the Service of Design
178
4
Depression and Collapse
182
1
THE ACROBAT OF REINFORCED CONCRETE, 1933-1934
183
6
Groping for New Forms
183
1
Finding a New Direction
184
2
Politics and Play
186
1
A Journey of the Mind
187
2
CHAPTER EIGHT The Great Debate, 1934-1938
189
34
THE SIHLHOLZLI GYMNASIUM CONTROVERSY, 1933-1935
189
7
Maillart Versus Max Ritter
189
3
In Defense of Design
192
1
Prestressing the Gym
193
1
The Attack on Zurich
193
1
The City Fights Back
194
2
NEW FORMS AND LOST COMPETITIONS, 1935-1936
196
14
The Challenge in Minuscule Bridges
196
4
Reflections on Design
200
2
The Vessy Bridge
202
3
"Sagesse Sans Diplome"
205
1
The Broken Inspector
206
1
Lost Competitions
207
3
CAREER SUMMARY: CODES, RESEARCH, AND DESIGN, 1932-1937
210
5
Maillart and Ritter
210
1
Maillart Debates the Code Committee
211
1
The Attack on "Applied-Science" Engineering
212
2
Current Issues: Integration of Form and Formula
214
1
MAILLART IN GERMANY, 1937-1938
215
8
Battle in Basel
215
1
Rest and Reward
216
2
The National Exposition
218
1
Bridge Form and the German Reich
219
2
German Threats and Moral Rearmament
221
2
CHAPTER NINE Honored at Last, 1938-1940
223
22
THE LAST VISIT, 1938-1939
223
4
Reunion and Cure
223
1
The Bridge Champion
224
1
Final Farewell
224
3
1939
227
13
Peney
227
7
Authoritarian Threats Versus a Masterpiece
234
2
The Last Bridges
236
4
TO THE MASTER
240
5
The Authorities
240
1
The Third Zurich Visit: Rest in Peace
241
2
Return to Geneva
243
1
Liberated and Tranquil
243
2
Notes
245
54
Maillart's Major Bridges
299
4
Maillart's Works
303
14
Maillart's Writings
317
4
General Note on Cost Conversions
321
2
Index
323