Matters of Engineering Design von David Basulto | AKT II | ISBN 9783966800211

Matters of Engineering Design

AKT II

von David Basulto und weiteren, herausgegeben von Hanif Kara und Paul Scott
Mitwirkende
Herausgegeben vonHanif Kara
Herausgegeben vonPaul Scott
Autor / AutorinDavid Basulto
Autor / AutorinWilliam Baker
Autor / AutorinJayne Kelley
Autor / AutorinPriya Khanchandani
Autor / AutorinAdrian Lahoud
Autor / AutorinLesley Lokko
Autor / AutorinIbrahim Mahama
Autor / AutorinStephen Parnell
Autor / AutorinVicky Richardson
Autor / AutorinEllis Woodman
Buchcover Matters of Engineering Design | David Basulto | EAN 9783966800211 | ISBN 3-96680-021-7 | ISBN 978-3-96680-021-1
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Matters of Engineering Design

AKT II

von David Basulto und weiteren, herausgegeben von Hanif Kara und Paul Scott
Mitwirkende
Herausgegeben vonHanif Kara
Herausgegeben vonPaul Scott
Autor / AutorinDavid Basulto
Autor / AutorinWilliam Baker
Autor / AutorinJayne Kelley
Autor / AutorinPriya Khanchandani
Autor / AutorinAdrian Lahoud
Autor / AutorinLesley Lokko
Autor / AutorinIbrahim Mahama
Autor / AutorinStephen Parnell
Autor / AutorinVicky Richardson
Autor / AutorinEllis Woodman
Since the firm’s founding twenty-five years ago, AKT II have forged an international practice that unifies the cultures and disciplines of architecture and structural engineering. This book is an engine for critical reflection on the scope, potential, and limits of what they have come to define as design engineering.
Structured into five discursive domains—scale, variability, attitude, reverse engineering, and the craftsmanship of engineering—the book presents a robust selection of the firm’s endeavours, which together demonstrate a vast range of encounters and processes in design. Common among them is a desire to understand and reshape the boundaries of the discipline of structural engineering, along with its links to fields such as philosophy, computer science, and geography. Interlaced with the projects, texts by contributors from varying fields engage the theoretical discussions and social conditions that bind contemporary practice.
Matters of Engineering Design: AKT II balances structural concerns that require an equilibrium of internal and external forces, a clear understanding of boundary conditions, and knowledge of the properties of material with the overarching challenges that society faces today, including advances in technology, changing economic orders, and ecological responsibility.
With contributions by William Baker, David Basulto, Hanif Kara, Jayne Kelley, Priya Khanchandani, Adrian Lahoud, Lesley Lokko, Ibrahim Mahama, Stephen Parnell, Vicky Richardson, and Ellis Woodman.