Architects+engineers=structures (Architecture): A Book That Celebrates Well-Known Designers Paxton, Torroja, Nervi, Saarinen, Buckminster Fuller, Le Corbusier, Niemeyer, Arup, Hunt and Foster, and - Softcover

Margolius, Ivan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471498254 ISBN 13: 9780471498254

Publisher: Academy Press, 2002

Synopsis

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: aeo dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence aeo Church of the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona aeo Eiffel Tower, Paris aeo Sydney Opera House, Sydney aeo Marina City, Chicago aeo Olympic Swimming Pool Arena, Tokyo aeo London Eye, London aeo 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 Architectsa 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." La Architecture da aujourda hui

About this title

Review:

"...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)

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Academy Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0471498254
• ISBN 13: 9780471498254
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112