[EDITOR’S NOTE]


Any large project often seems to take on a life of its own. Tat is certainly the case with two projects that we feature in this issue, which were both begun in the late 19th Century. One of them nearly killed its builder, and the other is still not complete, having outlasted its designer by nearly a century. In her newly released biography, Chief Engineer: Washington


Roebling, Te Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge, Erica Wagner sets out to acquaint us as personally as possible with a man whose work was often confused with that of his father, and even his


brothers. “Whenever a Roebling dies in Trenton he is immediately credited with having built the Brooklyn Bridge” wrote Washington in a letter to the New York Sun after the death of his brother Charles. Out of context, he seems to be reclaiming lost fame. But the man we meet in this book


is one driven a profound sense of duty to the work his intensely driven father had laid out for himself and his brothers in bridge building and in the fabrication of wire rope. Having followed his father into the bridge building trade, Washington, the oldest of the Roebling brothers, outlived his siblings and returned in his eighties the run the wire rope business his brothers had managed. As the Brooklyn Bridge was nearing completion, work had begun in Barcelona, Spain


on the Sagrada Familia. In 1883, a year into the work, the developer Josep Maria Bocabella released his first architect over a debate about construction methods. He was referred to thirty-one-year-old Antoni Gaudi. Gaudi dedicated the rest of his life to the project, working exclusively on it in later years, very much making it his own in the process. Funded entirely through donations and tour admission, the basilica stood half-built for


many years after Gaudi’s death in 1926, but it’s completion – a great deal of its towering height remains to be built – is now slated for 2026. Te architecture and engineering of massive projects in that era were “full contact


sports” in the sense that a designer would be uniquely able to execute their own plans. Roebling noted how that era had passed by the early 20th century. But the need to approach the work of our industry with a sense of duty has not. We are always interested in hearing about – and writing about – the projects you are dedicated to. Please let us know anytime you have a story to share.


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