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MARTIN PEARCE co-ordinates the third-year design programme, and lectures on architectural theory, at the University of Portsmouth School of Architecture. He is an examiner for the Royal Institute of British Architects' Examination in Architecture and a member of the RIBA/Architects Registration Board Joint Assessment Panel. His previous publications include Educating Architects (co-authored with Maggie Toy, 1995), Architects in Cyberspace (co-edited with Neil Spiller, 1995) and University Builders (2001).

RICHARD JOBSON is a director of architectural practice Design Engine based in London and Winchester and an architectural consultant to Whitby Bird and Partners. He is also a studio tutor at the University of Portsmouth School of Architecture and a visiting critic at the School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University. As a consultant for Whitby Bird and Partners he worked on York and Lancaster Millennium Bridges as well as the bridges at the Oracle shopping centre, Reading and Shanks Millennium Bridge, Peterborough.

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Introduction (Martin Pearce).

West India Quay Floating Bridge, London, England (Anthony Hunt Associates with Future Systems Architects).

Kelvin Link Bridge, Glasgow, Scotland (Anthony Hunt Associates with John McAslan & Partners).

Bridge at the World Association for Christian Communication, London, England (Austin Winkley & Associates).

Plashet School Footbridge, Newham, London, England (Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects).

Cardiff Bridge, Cardiff, Wales (Brookes Stacey Randall).

Three Mills Bridge, London, England (Clash Associates Ltd).

Green Bridge, London, England (CZWG).

Tree Top Walk, Valley of the Giants, Walpole, Western Australia (Donaldson + Warn Architects).

Koliste Footbridge, Brno, Czech Republic (Eva Jiricna Architects).

Millennium Bridge, London, England (Foster & Partners, Anthony Caro, Ove Arup & Partners).

Dogana Gate, Republic of San Marino (Giancarlo De Carlo).

Footbridge over the River Mur, Graz, Austria (Güenther Domenig).

Corporation Street Footbridge, Manchester, England (Hodder Associates).

Liffey Pedestrian Bridge, Dublin, Republic of Ireland (Howley Harrington Architects).

Natural History Museum Ecology Galleries, London, England (Ian Ritchie Architects).

Rogue River Pedestrian Bridge, Grants Pass, USA (Jiri Strasky).

Sacramento River Trail Pedestrian Bridge, Redding, USA (Jiri Strasky).

Vranov Lake Pedestrian Bridge, Czech Republic (Jiri Strasky).

Willamette River Pedestrian Bridge, Eugene, Oregon (Jiri Strasky).

Linkbridge 2000, London, England (Judah).

Hungerford Bridge Millennium Project, London, England (Lifschutz Davidson).

Royal Victoria Dock Bridge Project, London, England (Lifschutz Davidson).

Solferino Footbridge, Paris, France (Marc Mimram)

Black Dog Hill Bridge, Near Calne, England (Mark Lovell).

River Irthing Footbridge, Hadrian's Wall, England (Napper Architects).

Rotherhithe Tunnel Bridge, London, England (Nicholas Lacey & Partners).

St Saviour's Dock Bridge, London, England (Nicholas Lacey & Partners).

Museum Park Footbridge, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Office for Metropolitan Architecture).

Miho Museum Bridge, Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture, Japan (Pei Cobb Freed & Partners).

Bercy-Tolbiac Footbridge, Paris, France (RFR and Feichtinger Architects).

Skywalk, Hanover, Germany (RFR and Schultz & Partners).

Japan Bridge, Paris, France (RFR and Kisho Kurokawa).

Convertible Bridge over the Inner Harbour, Duisburg, Germany (Schlaich Bergermann & Partner).

Folding Bridge over the Förde, Kiel, Germany (Schlaich Bergermann & Partner).

Pedestrian Bridge over the Neckar River, Near Max-Eyth-See, Germany (Schlaich Bergermann & Partner).

Pedestrian Bridge over the Weser River, Minden, Germany (Shlaich Bergermann & Partner).

Oracle Bridges, Reading, England (Whitby Bird & Partners).

River Lune Millennium Bridge, Lancaster, England (Whitby Bird & Partners).

Shanks Millennium Bridge, Peterborough, England (Whitby Bird & Partners).

York Millennium Bridge, York, England (Whitby Bird & Partners).

Butterfly Bridge, Bedford, England (Wilkinson Eyre Architects).

Challenge of Materials Footbridge, Science Museum, London, England (Wilkinson Eyre Architects).

Gateshead Millennium Bridge, Gateshead, England (Wilkinson Eyre Architects).

Lockmeadow Footbridge, Maidstone, England (Wilkinson Eyre Architects).

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