Stop by the fabulous Hearth & Soul store in Tallahassee on December 6, 5 to 7 pm, for a Bridges celebration and signing. Meet author Judith Dupré and Linda Figg of FIGG Bridge Group. Bring the kids too – activities for children will be facilitated by the Challenger Learning Center education staff and the ASCE student chapter from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. These activities will include making paper bridges, large wooden bridges and shapes to be tested in a shape tes

[Bridges] is laid out to read sideways so that each impressive bridge it features can be viewed spanning the full 18 inches on a page. An unusual treat for lovers of impressive architecture. Read more at Dayton Daily News

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Love and attention for the Mackinac Bridge, the Golden Gate, the Tacoma Narrows and other spans classic and contemporary, in an oversize volume (9 inches by 18 inches).

“The unassuming poetry of bridges reveals itself to those who would see it,” Judith Dupré observes in the foreword to this splendid volume, which amply demonstrates her point. The arrangement is chronological, starting with the Pont du Gard in Nimes, France, which dates to 18 B.C.E., and concluding with two — the Chenab Bridge in India and the Danjiang Bridge in Taiwan — expected to be completed in 2020. The Ben Franklin doesn’t make the cut, but the Delaware Aqueduct between

Fast Company story that gives a sense of how wildly innovative bridges can be. “Bridges are pure structure, demanding nothing more or less than what’s needed to cross a river or a mountainous gorge. Yet new spans are proving that bridges can be much more than merely utilitarian.” The bridges [Dupré] selected here “mine the past and the future to enhance the environment and local economies,” she writes. They are also “also visual landmarks, delighting the public with their pra