EDUARDO TORROJA

This book offers, for the first time, a complete|comprehensive overview of the
outstanding professional career of Eduardo Torroja. Not only does it encompass the full
extension and variety of all his works, but also Torroja himself has written texts and
shed a light on the graphic presentations with his personal description on his reasoning
about design. Given that Torroja is one of the most important structure engineers in the
world, he offers lessons that each and everyone of us can and should take advantage
of.

The dream of every student of Engineering or Architecture (categories which necessarily

encompass the majority of structure designers) is to work under|with an exceptional
professor|lecturer, so that they can|in order to acquire this structure awareness|
structural knowledge that is the only solid basis for the design. The theoretical books
about structures can offer information|input about a mathematical analysis of some
standard structures, but even the brightest students need a long period of studies to
master the art of design.

The professors for high level structures are, unfortunately, so scarce|few that most of us
have to go through a laborious and improvised period of learning, while fully exercising
the profession. More often than not, the everyday work in an engineering studio
replaces the formal education in the basic elements of structure behavior.

Fortunately, some great professors in the field of structures are willing to patiently share
their accumulated knowledge with the ones who study their published works. One of
them is Eduardo Torroja, and the sum of his career, presented on these pages by Torroja
himself, is undoubtedly the densest of all his textbooks.

Eduardo Torroja is, without the shadow of a doubt, much more than a structures
professor. He is a humanist, a wise big company manager, a great engineer and an
enthusiastic researcher.