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This book applauds the union of architecture and engineering both today and throughout the history of building and construction.
The relationship between the two fields is multifaceted. Some architects may have had an engineering background, and some engineers have experience of architecture. Some unacknowledged engineers have stood modestly behind great architects, and a number of architects have been encouraged and supported by their engineer-collaborators in designing structures that appear to defy gravity.
Architects + Engineers = Structures focuses on the ideal: on a cohesive building design team where the members contribute equally, resulting in unique and exceptional designs. These are architects and engineers who entice beauty into buildings not just with lines on paper and calculations but with intuition, innovation and feeling for the needs of people, materials, strength, proportion, lightness and elegance.
Structures featured include:
* dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence
* Church of the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
* Eiffel Tower, Paris
* Sydney Opera House, Sydney
* Marina City, Chicago
* Olympic Swimming Pool Arena, Tokyo
* London Eye, London
* many other international examples, both celebrated and less well-known
"This subject is very important, and I hope the book will attract the attention of many architects and engineers." Professor Mamoru Kawaguchi
Also by Ivan Margolius:
Automobiles by Architects, Wiley-Academy, ISBN 047160786X
"How rare it is to put down a book with the sense of pleasure satisfied, the mind excited by ideas and information, nostalgia stimulated, the eye amused by illustrations." Brian Sewell, The Spectator
"Superbly entertaining book." Edwin Heathcote, The Architects' Journal
"This is an enjoyable read." Building Design
"Excellent book." FX Magazine
"Purchasers are likely to have something unique on their bookshelves." The Automobile
"A pleasant surprise is the density and clarity of the text, usefully accompanied by a wealth and diversity of iconography." L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui
The relationship between the two fields is multifaceted. Some architects may have had an engineering background, and some engineers have experience of architecture. Some unacknowledged engineers have stood modestly behind great architects, and a number of architects have been encouraged and supported by their engineer-collaborators in designing structures that appear to defy gravity.
Architects + Engineers = Structures focuses on the ideal: on a cohesive building design team where the members contribute equally, resulting in unique and exceptional designs. These are architects and engineers who entice beauty into buildings not just with lines on paper and calculations but with intuition, innovation and feeling for the needs of people, materials, strength, proportion, lightness and elegance.
Structures featured include:
* dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence
* Church of the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
* Eiffel Tower, Paris
* Sydney Opera House, Sydney
* Marina City, Chicago
* Olympic Swimming Pool Arena, Tokyo
* London Eye, London
* many other international examples, both celebrated and less well-known
"This subject is very important, and I hope the book will attract the attention of many architects and engineers." Professor Mamoru Kawaguchi
Also by Ivan Margolius:
Automobiles by Architects, Wiley-Academy, ISBN 047160786X
"How rare it is to put down a book with the sense of pleasure satisfied, the mind excited by ideas and information, nostalgia stimulated, the eye amused by illustrations." Brian Sewell, The Spectator
"Superbly entertaining book." Edwin Heathcote, The Architects' Journal
"This is an enjoyable read." Building Design
"Excellent book." FX Magazine
"Purchasers are likely to have something unique on their bookshelves." The Automobile
"A pleasant surprise is the density and clarity of the text, usefully accompanied by a wealth and diversity of iconography." L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui
English
IVAN MARGOLIUS is an architect and the author of a number of articles and books on architecture and design including Cubism in Architecture and the Applied Arts (1979), Prague - a guide to twentieth-century architecture (1994, 1996), Joze Plecnik - Church of the Sacred Heart (1995) and Automobiles by Architects (2000).
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Introduction
A Celebration of Architects-Engineers
Medieval Cathedral Architects
Filippo Brunelleschi and the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore
Thomas Telford, The Menai Bridge
Decimus Burton, Richard Turner, The Palm House
Joseph Paxton, Charles Fox (Fox Henderson & Co), Crystal Palace
Antonio Gaudi, Church of the Sagrada Familia
William Le Baron Jenney, John Wellborn Root, Chicago Skyscrapers
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, Maurice Koechlin, Emile Nougier, Stephen Sauvestre, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, The Eiffel Tower
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Concert Hall Project
Auguste Perret and reinforced concrete
Eugene Freyssinet, Airship Hangars
Vladimir Tatlin, Monument to the Third International
Albert Laprade, Leon Bazin, Jean Prouvé, Establissements Citroën, Garage Marbeuf, Glass façade
Carlos Arniches, Martin Dominguez, Eduardo Torroja y Miret, Zarzuela Hippodrome
Pier Luigi Nervi, Aircraft Hangars, Orvieto
Frank Lloyd Wright, Mendel Glickman, S.C. Johnson & Son Administration Building; and Frank Lloyd Wright, Jaroslav J. Polivka, Laboratory Tower
Robert Maillart, Cement Hall
Eero Saarinen, Fred N. Severud, Hannskarl Bandel, Jefferson Memorial Arch
Richard Buckminster Fuller, Geodesic and Tensegrity Domes
Philip Powell, Hidalgo Moya, Felix J. Samuely, The Skylon
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank J. Kornacker, Convention Hall
Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, Joaquim Cardozo
Le Corbusier, Yannis Xenakis, H.C. Duyster, C.G.J. Vreedenburgh, Philips Pavilion
Jørn Utzon, Ove Arup & Partners, Opera House
Guillermo Rosell, Manuel Larrosa, Felix Candela, Chapel
Konrad Wachsmann, Space Structure
Bertrand Goldberg, Frank J. Kornacker, Bertold E. Weinberg, Fred N. Severud, Hannskarl Bandel, Marina City
Gerhon & Seltzer, Lev Zetlin, Memorial Auditorium
Kenzo Tange, Yoshikatsu Tsuboi, Mamoru Kawaguchi, Olympic Swimming Pool Arena and Olympic Boxing and Basketball Arena
Cedric Price, Frank Newby, Anthony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon), Zoo Aviary
Myron Goldsmith, Alfred Picardi, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Solar Telescope
Rolf Gutbrod, Frei Otto, Cable Net Roof, German Exhibition Pavilion
Piano & Rogers, Ove Arup & Partners, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou
Joerg Schlaich, Dry Cooling Tower, Schmehausen Nuclear Power Plant
Jiri Strasky, Stress-Ribbon Bridges
Richard Rogers and Partners, Anthony Hunt Associates, Inmos Microchip Facility
Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners, Anthony Hunt Associates, Waterloo International Terminal
Eva Jiricna, Matthew Wells, Tim Macfarlane, Glass Staircases
Foster Associates, Ove Arup & Partners, MC-2 Julio Martinez Calzon, Torre de Collserola
Santiago Calatrava, Buro Happold, Dennis Sharp, Trinity Bridge
Future Systems, Ove Arup & Partners, Lord's Media Centre
Lifschutz Davidson, Matthew Wells (Techniker), Pedestrian Bridge
David Marks, Julia Barfield, Babtie Allott & Lomax, Hollandia, British Airways London Eye
Wilkinson Eyre, Whitby, Bird & Partners, Challenge of Materials Footbridge
And there were others
Inspiration for the Future
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A Celebration of Architects-Engineers
Medieval Cathedral Architects
Filippo Brunelleschi and the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore
Thomas Telford, The Menai Bridge
Decimus Burton, Richard Turner, The Palm House
Joseph Paxton, Charles Fox (Fox Henderson & Co), Crystal Palace
Antonio Gaudi, Church of the Sagrada Familia
William Le Baron Jenney, John Wellborn Root, Chicago Skyscrapers
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, Maurice Koechlin, Emile Nougier, Stephen Sauvestre, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, The Eiffel Tower
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Concert Hall Project
Auguste Perret and reinforced concrete
Eugene Freyssinet, Airship Hangars
Vladimir Tatlin, Monument to the Third International
Albert Laprade, Leon Bazin, Jean Prouvé, Establissements Citroën, Garage Marbeuf, Glass façade
Carlos Arniches, Martin Dominguez, Eduardo Torroja y Miret, Zarzuela Hippodrome
Pier Luigi Nervi, Aircraft Hangars, Orvieto
Frank Lloyd Wright, Mendel Glickman, S.C. Johnson & Son Administration Building; and Frank Lloyd Wright, Jaroslav J. Polivka, Laboratory Tower
Robert Maillart, Cement Hall
Eero Saarinen, Fred N. Severud, Hannskarl Bandel, Jefferson Memorial Arch
Richard Buckminster Fuller, Geodesic and Tensegrity Domes
Philip Powell, Hidalgo Moya, Felix J. Samuely, The Skylon
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank J. Kornacker, Convention Hall
Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, Joaquim Cardozo
Le Corbusier, Yannis Xenakis, H.C. Duyster, C.G.J. Vreedenburgh, Philips Pavilion
Jørn Utzon, Ove Arup & Partners, Opera House
Guillermo Rosell, Manuel Larrosa, Felix Candela, Chapel
Konrad Wachsmann, Space Structure
Bertrand Goldberg, Frank J. Kornacker, Bertold E. Weinberg, Fred N. Severud, Hannskarl Bandel, Marina City
Gerhon & Seltzer, Lev Zetlin, Memorial Auditorium
Kenzo Tange, Yoshikatsu Tsuboi, Mamoru Kawaguchi, Olympic Swimming Pool Arena and Olympic Boxing and Basketball Arena
Cedric Price, Frank Newby, Anthony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon), Zoo Aviary
Myron Goldsmith, Alfred Picardi, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Solar Telescope
Rolf Gutbrod, Frei Otto, Cable Net Roof, German Exhibition Pavilion
Piano & Rogers, Ove Arup & Partners, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou
Joerg Schlaich, Dry Cooling Tower, Schmehausen Nuclear Power Plant
Jiri Strasky, Stress-Ribbon Bridges
Richard Rogers and Partners, Anthony Hunt Associates, Inmos Microchip Facility
Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners, Anthony Hunt Associates, Waterloo International Terminal
Eva Jiricna, Matthew Wells, Tim Macfarlane, Glass Staircases
Foster Associates, Ove Arup & Partners, MC-2 Julio Martinez Calzon, Torre de Collserola
Santiago Calatrava, Buro Happold, Dennis Sharp, Trinity Bridge
Future Systems, Ove Arup & Partners, Lord's Media Centre
Lifschutz Davidson, Matthew Wells (Techniker), Pedestrian Bridge
David Marks, Julia Barfield, Babtie Allott & Lomax, Hollandia, British Airways London Eye
Wilkinson Eyre, Whitby, Bird & Partners, Challenge of Materials Footbridge
And there were others
Inspiration for the Future
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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"...both engaging and intelligent..." (Blueprint, June 2002)
"…excellent illustrations…fascinating photographs…a thought-provoking addition to the architect / engineer debate…" (B, D & E, Third Quarter 2002)
