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The art of structural engineering: the bridges, visions, and philosophy of Christian Menn. Menn continues the tradition of Swiss bridge construction and has worked both as a designing engineer and as a teacher. This monograph documents Menn’s work, vision, thinking and philosophy. Around thirty of his designs, built and unrealized, are featured in this book, and are(...)
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The art of structural engineering: the bridges, visions, and philosophy of Christian Menn. Menn continues the tradition of Swiss bridge construction and has worked both as a designing engineer and as a teacher. This monograph documents Menn’s work, vision, thinking and philosophy. Around thirty of his designs, built and unrealized, are featured in this book, and are(...)
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Christian Menn: brücken / bridges
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The art of structural engineering: the bridges, visions, and philosophy of Christian Menn. Menn continues the tradition of Swiss bridge construction and has worked both as a designing engineer and as a teacher. This monograph documents Menn’s work, vision, thinking and philosophy. Around thirty of his designs, built and unrealized, are featured in this book, and are accompanied by technical detail and plans. In addition to an essay by Menn, included are essays by fellow engineer David P. Billington, scholar Werner Oechslin, and writer and publicist Iso Camartin who look at Menn’s oeuvre from different points of view.
Christian Menn: brücken / bridges
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The art of structural engineering: the bridges, visions, and philosophy of Christian Menn. Menn continues the tradition of Swiss bridge construction and has worked both as a designing engineer and as a teacher. This monograph documents Menn’s work, vision, thinking and philosophy. Around thirty of his designs, built and unrealized, are featured in this book, and are accompanied by technical detail and plans. In addition to an essay by Menn, included are essays by fellow engineer David P. Billington, scholar Werner Oechslin, and writer and publicist Iso Camartin who look at Menn’s oeuvre from different points of view.
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December 2015
December 2015
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Engineering Structures
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A reciprocal framework in architecture is a construction where a building’s weight is held not through a single post or beam, but through an interaction of mutually supportive, interwoven members. Reciprocal frameworks have been in use for hundreds of years—including in the work of such Renaissance masters as Leonardo—but, while they are still used today, they are not(...)
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A reciprocal framework in architecture is a construction where a building’s weight is held not through a single post or beam, but through an interaction of mutually supportive, interwoven members. Reciprocal frameworks have been in use for hundreds of years—including in the work of such Renaissance masters as Leonardo—but, while they are still used today, they are not(...)
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Reciprocal frameworks: tradition and innovation
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A reciprocal framework in architecture is a construction where a building’s weight is held not through a single post or beam, but through an interaction of mutually supportive, interwoven members. Reciprocal frameworks have been in use for hundreds of years—including in the work of such Renaissance masters as Leonardo—but, while they are still used today, they are not particularly well known. This book delves into the history and function of reciprocal frameworks, showing not only how they work but also how newly available digital tools can help architects fruitfully expand their use well beyond current applications.
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A reciprocal framework in architecture is a construction where a building’s weight is held not through a single post or beam, but through an interaction of mutually supportive, interwoven members. Reciprocal frameworks have been in use for hundreds of years—including in the work of such Renaissance masters as Leonardo—but, while they are still used today, they are not particularly well known. This book delves into the history and function of reciprocal frameworks, showing not only how they work but also how newly available digital tools can help architects fruitfully expand their use well beyond current applications.
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August 2015
August 2015
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Engineering Structures
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Architect Donald Macdonald designed the Golden Gate Bridge's current tollbooths and bike rail, set the guidelines for it's retrofit, and is at the centre of the discussion around the subject of the proposed suicide barrier design. Through his eyes the balance of aesthetics, geometry, and engineering that fashion the bridge is made clear
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Architect Donald Macdonald designed the Golden Gate Bridge's current tollbooths and bike rail, set the guidelines for it's retrofit, and is at the centre of the discussion around the subject of the proposed suicide barrier design. Through his eyes the balance of aesthetics, geometry, and engineering that fashion the bridge is made clear
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Golden Gate bridge: history and design of an icon
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Architect Donald Macdonald designed the Golden Gate Bridge's current tollbooths and bike rail, set the guidelines for it's retrofit, and is at the centre of the discussion around the subject of the proposed suicide barrier design. Through his eyes the balance of aesthetics, geometry, and engineering that fashion the bridge is made clear
Golden Gate bridge: history and design of an icon
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Architect Donald Macdonald designed the Golden Gate Bridge's current tollbooths and bike rail, set the guidelines for it's retrofit, and is at the centre of the discussion around the subject of the proposed suicide barrier design. Through his eyes the balance of aesthetics, geometry, and engineering that fashion the bridge is made clear
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July 2015
July 2015
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The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will open in October 2013 and Chronicle author Donald MacDonald is its architect. McDonald and coauthor Ira Nadel now turn their signature approach onto this new Bay Area landmark.
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The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will open in October 2013 and Chronicle author Donald MacDonald is its architect. McDonald and coauthor Ira Nadel now turn their signature approach onto this new Bay Area landmark.
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Bay Bridge: history and design of a new icon
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The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will open in October 2013 and Chronicle author Donald MacDonald is its architect. McDonald and coauthor Ira Nadel now turn their signature approach onto this new Bay Area landmark.
Bay Bridge: history and design of a new icon
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The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will open in October 2013 and Chronicle author Donald MacDonald is its architect. McDonald and coauthor Ira Nadel now turn their signature approach onto this new Bay Area landmark.
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July 2015
July 2015
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From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction, charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated volume,(...)
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From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction, charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated volume,(...)
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Building: 3000 years of design, engineering and construction
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From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction, charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated volume, aimed at students and young professionals as well as general readers, explores the materials, classic texts, instruments, and theories that have propelled modern engineering, and the famous and not-so-famous buildings designed through the ages, from the Parthenon to Chartres Cathedral and the dome of St. Peter's, from eighteenth-century silk mills in England to the Crystal Palace, and on to the first Chicago high-rises, the Sydney Opera House, and the latest "green" skyscrapers.
Building: 3000 years of design, engineering and construction
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From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction, charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated volume, aimed at students and young professionals as well as general readers, explores the materials, classic texts, instruments, and theories that have propelled modern engineering, and the famous and not-so-famous buildings designed through the ages, from the Parthenon to Chartres Cathedral and the dome of St. Peter's, from eighteenth-century silk mills in England to the Crystal Palace, and on to the first Chicago high-rises, the Sydney Opera House, and the latest "green" skyscrapers.
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September 2015
September 2015
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Engineering Structures
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L'angoisse de l'ingénieur
L'angoisse de l'ingénieur
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Avec L'Angoisse de l'ingénieur, texte à valeur de manifeste, Ernst Bloch démontre le piège que l'homme se tend à lui-même. Sentiment en vérité archaïque, l'angoisse trouve une forme nouvelle dans la quête perpétuelle d'un accès à l'inconnu, dont on ne peut mesurer encore les conséquences. De cette tension naît l'angoisse, autrefois reliée à l’obscure et toute-puissante(...)
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Avec L'Angoisse de l'ingénieur, texte à valeur de manifeste, Ernst Bloch démontre le piège que l'homme se tend à lui-même. Sentiment en vérité archaïque, l'angoisse trouve une forme nouvelle dans la quête perpétuelle d'un accès à l'inconnu, dont on ne peut mesurer encore les conséquences. De cette tension naît l'angoisse, autrefois reliée à l’obscure et toute-puissante(...)
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L'angoisse de l'ingénieur
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Avec L'Angoisse de l'ingénieur, texte à valeur de manifeste, Ernst Bloch démontre le piège que l'homme se tend à lui-même. Sentiment en vérité archaïque, l'angoisse trouve une forme nouvelle dans la quête perpétuelle d'un accès à l'inconnu, dont on ne peut mesurer encore les conséquences. De cette tension naît l'angoisse, autrefois reliée à l’obscure et toute-puissante magie, mais dont les effets de la technique perpétuent le sentiment de terreur. L'antique démonisme n'est jamais loin, lorsque l'ingénieur freine en dernier ressort son avancée.
L'angoisse de l'ingénieur
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Avec L'Angoisse de l'ingénieur, texte à valeur de manifeste, Ernst Bloch démontre le piège que l'homme se tend à lui-même. Sentiment en vérité archaïque, l'angoisse trouve une forme nouvelle dans la quête perpétuelle d'un accès à l'inconnu, dont on ne peut mesurer encore les conséquences. De cette tension naît l'angoisse, autrefois reliée à l’obscure et toute-puissante magie, mais dont les effets de la technique perpétuent le sentiment de terreur. L'antique démonisme n'est jamais loin, lorsque l'ingénieur freine en dernier ressort son avancée.
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September 2015
September 2015
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Engineering Structures
Engineering Structures
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Building from Waste
Building from Waste
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This is a conceptual and practical look into materials and products which use waste as a renewable resource for architectural, interior, and industrial design. The inventory ranges from marketed products to advanced research and development, organized along the manufacturing processes: densified, reconfigured, transformed, designed and cultivated materials. A product(...)
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This is a conceptual and practical look into materials and products which use waste as a renewable resource for architectural, interior, and industrial design. The inventory ranges from marketed products to advanced research and development, organized along the manufacturing processes: densified, reconfigured, transformed, designed and cultivated materials. A product(...)
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Engineering Structures
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September 2015
September 2015
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Building from Waste
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This is a conceptual and practical look into materials and products which use waste as a renewable resource for architectural, interior, and industrial design. The inventory ranges from marketed products to advanced research and development, organized along the manufacturing processes: densified, reconfigured, transformed, designed and cultivated materials. A product directory presents all materials and projects according to their functional uses.
Building from Waste
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This is a conceptual and practical look into materials and products which use waste as a renewable resource for architectural, interior, and industrial design. The inventory ranges from marketed products to advanced research and development, organized along the manufacturing processes: densified, reconfigured, transformed, designed and cultivated materials. A product directory presents all materials and projects according to their functional uses.
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September 2015
September 2015
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How architects and engineers relate to one another has long been debated but never before addressed over a broad span of history. There are many controversial issues: about professional demarcation, about credit for design, about the value we attach to art in buildings, and about how that connects with advances in technique and efficiency. This pioneering and handsomely(...)
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How architects and engineers relate to one another has long been debated but never before addressed over a broad span of history. There are many controversial issues: about professional demarcation, about credit for design, about the value we attach to art in buildings, and about how that connects with advances in technique and efficiency. This pioneering and handsomely(...)
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March 2008, New Haven, London
March 2008, New Haven, London
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Architect and Engineer: a study in sibling rivalry
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How architects and engineers relate to one another has long been debated but never before addressed over a broad span of history. There are many controversial issues: about professional demarcation, about credit for design, about the value we attach to art in buildings, and about how that connects with advances in technique and efficiency. This pioneering and handsomely illustrated book enquires for the first time into the pattern of these relationships since the Renaissance. Concentrating particularly on Britain, France and the United States, Architect and Engineer looks at what has actually taken place when architecture and engineering have interlocked. It examines projects ranging from the building of Waterloo Bridge to the evolution of the Chicago skyscraper, and personalities from Vauban to Brunel and Wright. The results of this impartial investigation may often surprise and provoke the reader. It is a study that has radical implications for the compartmentalized ways in which the history of architecture and construction has conventionally been addressed
Architect and Engineer: a study in sibling rivalry
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How architects and engineers relate to one another has long been debated but never before addressed over a broad span of history. There are many controversial issues: about professional demarcation, about credit for design, about the value we attach to art in buildings, and about how that connects with advances in technique and efficiency. This pioneering and handsomely illustrated book enquires for the first time into the pattern of these relationships since the Renaissance. Concentrating particularly on Britain, France and the United States, Architect and Engineer looks at what has actually taken place when architecture and engineering have interlocked. It examines projects ranging from the building of Waterloo Bridge to the evolution of the Chicago skyscraper, and personalities from Vauban to Brunel and Wright. The results of this impartial investigation may often surprise and provoke the reader. It is a study that has radical implications for the compartmentalized ways in which the history of architecture and construction has conventionally been addressed
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March 2008, New Haven, London
March 2008, New Haven, London
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Findings on elasticity
Findings on elasticity
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What happens when one gives a simple rubber band to an architect, historian, choreographer, chemist, artist, mathematician, physicist, economist, anthropologist, and geologist and asks each of them for a statement on elasticity? The economist studies the elasticity of supply and demand of market forces. “The Pars Foundation” draws researchers out of their specialized(...)
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What happens when one gives a simple rubber band to an architect, historian, choreographer, chemist, artist, mathematician, physicist, economist, anthropologist, and geologist and asks each of them for a statement on elasticity? The economist studies the elasticity of supply and demand of market forces. “The Pars Foundation” draws researchers out of their specialized(...)
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Findings on elasticity
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What happens when one gives a simple rubber band to an architect, historian, choreographer, chemist, artist, mathematician, physicist, economist, anthropologist, and geologist and asks each of them for a statement on elasticity? The economist studies the elasticity of supply and demand of market forces. “The Pars Foundation” draws researchers out of their specialized niches in order to publish their brilliant, crazy, important, or bewildering results and assembles them in this interdisciplinary volume. There are no guidelines for the form their contributions must take. It may be images, poems, essays, sketches, formulas or a piece of sculpture; the editors only ask that a contribution reect the respondent’s own field as well as his or her passion for the topic.
Findings on elasticity
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What happens when one gives a simple rubber band to an architect, historian, choreographer, chemist, artist, mathematician, physicist, economist, anthropologist, and geologist and asks each of them for a statement on elasticity? The economist studies the elasticity of supply and demand of market forces. “The Pars Foundation” draws researchers out of their specialized niches in order to publish their brilliant, crazy, important, or bewildering results and assembles them in this interdisciplinary volume. There are no guidelines for the form their contributions must take. It may be images, poems, essays, sketches, formulas or a piece of sculpture; the editors only ask that a contribution reect the respondent’s own field as well as his or her passion for the topic.
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August 2009
August 2009
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Since the introduction of steel as a building material in the early twentieth century, its superior performance has challenged conventional wisdom about construction, enabling designs of surprising lightness and span. Steel offered the opportunity to significantly expand buildings vertically and thus emerged as a symbol of the conflict between technological progress and(...)
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Since the introduction of steel as a building material in the early twentieth century, its superior performance has challenged conventional wisdom about construction, enabling designs of surprising lightness and span. Steel offered the opportunity to significantly expand buildings vertically and thus emerged as a symbol of the conflict between technological progress and(...)
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November 2019
November 2019
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At home in steel: residential construction in steel, thoughts on space and structure
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Since the introduction of steel as a building material in the early twentieth century, its superior performance has challenged conventional wisdom about construction, enabling designs of surprising lightness and span. Steel offered the opportunity to significantly expand buildings vertically and thus emerged as a symbol of the conflict between technological progress and the architectural ideal. More recently, the use of exposed steel elements in modern architecture ushered in a rediscovery of buildings’ metamorphoses. From the Eames House in Los Angeles to the Hôtel Tassel in Brussels and the Maison de Verre in Paris, "At Home in Steel" celebrates the use of steel in residential architecture.
At home in steel: residential construction in steel, thoughts on space and structure
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Since the introduction of steel as a building material in the early twentieth century, its superior performance has challenged conventional wisdom about construction, enabling designs of surprising lightness and span. Steel offered the opportunity to significantly expand buildings vertically and thus emerged as a symbol of the conflict between technological progress and the architectural ideal. More recently, the use of exposed steel elements in modern architecture ushered in a rediscovery of buildings’ metamorphoses. From the Eames House in Los Angeles to the Hôtel Tassel in Brussels and the Maison de Verre in Paris, "At Home in Steel" celebrates the use of steel in residential architecture.
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November 2019
November 2019
