The Architecture of Bridges - 1949 Museum of Modern Art book

"It is a very unusual person whose imagination is not fired by the sight of a fine bridge as it leaps through space. This book should appeal not only to engineers and architects, but to everyone who loves bridges or is curious to know more about them. The Architecture of Bridges is no technical treatise. It is dedicated to the proposal that bridges are architecture, and that bridges throughout history can be judged by the same esthetic standards that we apply to architecture. The book's whole concern is with the art of structure and with its response through the creative imagination of engineer or architect to the challenge of new materials, new techniques and new problems..." - The Architecture of Bridges - Elizabeth B. Mock Published 1949, Modern Gravure Corporation, for the Museum of Modern Art, New York Hardcover. 127pp. Approx 8.5x11in. Condition: Dustjacket shows considerable wear, has tears along top and a bit missing lower spine. Foxing/discoloration on inner cover. (see images), Book itself is in decent shape given vintage.