Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

6/1/1980 - 3/31/1983

Funding Totals

$32,000.00 (approved)
$32,000.00 (awarded)


Robert Maillart and the Aesthetics in Engineering

FAIN: RO-*1477-80

Princeton University (Princeton, NJ 08540-5228)
David P. Billington (Project Director: February 1980 to October 1990)

To support research for and writing of the second volume on the life and works of Robert Maillart (1872-1940). The volume will study Maillart's personality and its relation to his work as a structural engineer in Switzerland between 1914-1940.