The de­sign of the book in many lay­ers, goes hand in hand with the con­tent, which de­scribes the many dif­fer­ent lay­ers with which the en­gi­neers schlaich berg­er­mann part­ner deal and in which they work.

How do the en­gi­neers al­ways man­age to de­liver in­no­v­a­tive and first-class work? A look be­hind the scenes de­scribes this. In ad­di­tion to ex­cit­ing texts and pro­ject de­scrip­tions, the book also pro­vides space for beau­ti­ful, quiet photo se­ries. What it means when en­gi­neers work to­gether with artists is shown in the layer art, for ex­am­ple. Nu­mer­ous works are vividly ex­plored in depth about Aug­mented Re­al­ity.

Glass mesh domes as canopies re­fine build­ings and ur­ban build­ing en­sem­bles. This book is the first com­pre­hen­sive dis­play of de­sign, con­struc­tion and fil­i­greed cal­cu­la­tion of dou­ble-curved, wide-span glazed shells. The geo­met­ric prin­ci­ples of the de­sign of the shell struc­tures are clear and eas­ily com­pre­hen­si­ble, and are easy to use with com­mer­cial CAD pro­gramme mod­ules. Us­ing real-life ex­am­ples from the years 1989 to 2014, the lat­est meth­ods of form-find­ing cal­cu­la­tions and op­ti­mi­sa­tion through the com­plex in­ter­ac­tion of sta­tic equi­lib­rium, form and topol­ogy are ex­plained prac­ti­cally. The re­sults are in­tel­li­gent mesh de­signs with min­i­mal weight.

“This book is for all those in­ter­ested in civic en­gi­neer­ing and its ef­fects on peo­ple and na­ture. Writ­ten in the style of a travel guide, it in­spires the reader to visit the sites.” (from the pro­logue). A 700-page ref­er­ence work – this book is the first of its kind. In a handy size pa­per­back for­mat, the book is de­signed for the read­er’s con­ve­nience. It fea­tures a pro­tec­tive plas­tic cover, the con­tent is or­gan­ised us­ing in­dex di­viders and a map with each site is marked us­ing a cus­tom-de­signed pic­togram fam­ily. Moni­teurs de­signed and pro­duced the en­tire edi­tion.