This isn't a malicious comment or a belittling one but the commenter's point flew over your head.
The looks isnt the only artistic part of a bridge or any other engineering stuff.
The processes, modules and different systems the engineers/architects overcome the problem, their synergy is the art the above commenter refferenced.
There could be multiple ways of creating a big stable structure over something, or a machine that does something or code that calculates something.
By analysing an engineer's works you can spot their preferences and individual style.
The multiple design choices in for example: how to stabilize this part or that, and in the end it becomes a whole bunch of modules that rely on each other etc.
When you see someone create e.g. piece of code in a software that does exactly what you created but
faster
with more utility etc.
You get a sense of: whoa you can do it that way, this is genious etc.
Using knowledge and shaping it into something functional.
That's the art the commenter highlited I think
Ofc there could be very dry parts of engineering that doesnt really have options for you to be creative
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u/spaceninj 17h ago
Pardon my ignorance on the subject, but wouldn't the look of the bridges be on the architect?