We list here some of the most useful references relating to the aesthetics of bridges.

• Bill, M. 1969. Robert Maillart: Bridges and Constructions. 3 ed. Trans. by W.P.M. Keatinge Clay. New York: Praeger.
  
  
• Bacow, Adele Fleet & Kenneth E. Kruckemeyer, ed. Bridge Design: Aesthetics and Developing Technologies. Massachusetts Department of Public Works and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1986. (This book documents the proceedings of a conference that included some of the most prominent bridge engineers in the United States.)
  
  
• Billington, David. "Bridges as Art," Civil Engineering Magazine. March 1990 Pages 50-53
  
  
• ——. The Art of Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy. Princeton University Art Museum, 2003
  
  
• ——. "History and Aesthetics in Suspension Bridges," Journal of the Structural Division, ASCE, Vol.103 No ST8, August 1977 pp 1655-1672.
  
  
• ——. 1979. Robert Maillart's Bridges. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  
  
• ——. 1997. Robert Maillart: Builder, Designer, and Artist. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
  
  
• ——.The Tower and the Bridge. New York: Basic Books, 1983.
  
  
• Buckland, P. G. "The Inherent Beauty of Cable-Stayed Bridges". In Esthetics in Concrete Bridge Design. Detroit: American Concrete Institute, 1990
  
  
• Burke, Martin. "Bridge Design and the Bridge Aesthetic Bibliography," Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 115, No.4, April 1989 ASCE
  
  
• Committee on General Structures, Subcommittee on Bridge Aesthetics. Bridge Aesthetics Around the World. Transportation Research Board, Subcommittee on Bridge Aesthetics, 1991.
  
  
• Figg, Eugene C. "Public Involvement Creates Revolutionary Bridge Design". In Proceedings of the International Bridge Conference. Pittsburgh: Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania, 2001.
  
  
• Finley, R. Craig. "Five fundamentals of bridge design". CE News 13 (August 2001): 48-49.
  
  
• Gauvreau, P. 2007. Innovation and Aesthetics in Bridge Engineering. Canadian Civil Engineer 23.5 (Winter 2006-2007): 10-12.
  
  
• Gauvreau, P. 2005. Engineering and Urban Design: Who Leads Whom? 1st CSCE Specialty Conference on Infrastructure Technologies, Management and Policy. Montreal: Canadian Society for Civil Engineering.
  
  
• Gauvreau, P. 2002. The Three Myths of Bridge Aesthetics. In Developments in Short and Medium Span Bridge Engineering 2002, pp. 49-56. Ed. P. H. Brett, N. Banthia, and P. G. Buckland. Montreal: Canadian Society for Civil Engineering.
  
  
• Giedion, Siegfried. Space, Time, and Architecture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1952.
  
  
• Gottemoeller, Frederick. Bridgescape: The Art of Designing Bridges, 2nd edn. John Wiley & Sons, 2004, 328 pages
  
  
• Leonhardt, Fritz. Brüken - Ästhetik und Gestaltung / Bridges - Aesthetics and Design. MIT Press, 1984. (This excellently illustrated book, written by the legendary bridge engineer, is a classic.)
  
  
• Mock, Elizabeth B. The Architecture of Bridges. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1949.
  
  
• Salvadori, M.G., The Message of Structure, Engineering and the Humanities, pp 190-205, Ed. James H. Schaub and Sheila K. Dickison, John Wiley & Sons, New York, New York, 1982.
  
  
• Sullivan, Louis. Kindergarten Chats. New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc, 1947.
  
  
• Torroja, E., The Beauty of Structures, Philosophy of Structures, pp 268-289, University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1958.
  
  
• Zuk, William. "Public Response to Bridge Colors," Transportation Research Record, Vol. 507. Transportation Research Board, 1974.