Design Engineering, AKT - Adams Kara Taylor

Collaborating with leading architects like Zaha Hadid, Foreign Office Architects, Norman Foster, and Will Alsop, Adams Kara Taylor have become the engineers of choice for projects that redefine the conventional boundaries between structural engineering and architecture. Their holistic approach expands structural thinking to include technical solutions, aesthetics, and advanced research to adapt both diverse architectures and design methodologies. Organized into a series of synthetic themes - complexity, trans-scalarity, modelling, process - this book presents a cross-section of diverse projects and methods as a manual for new relations between radical engineering and design. Contributors include Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Simon Allford, Patrik Schumacher, Tim Anstey, Mohsen Mostafavi, and Michael Speaks.

About the author

Hanif Kara is design director and co-founder of London-based structural engineering practice Adams Kara Taylor (AKT II). He has taught design internationally, is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Architecture Foundation and was a commissioner for CABE from 2008-2011 (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment). He is currently a visiting professor of Architectural Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and teaches design at GSD Harvard.

Product details

• Authors: Adams Kara Taylor, Adams Kara Taylor
• Assisted by: Hanif Kara (Editor)
• Publisher: Actar
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2014
• EAN: 9788496540668
• ISBN: 978-84-96540-66-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 27 mm x 246 mm
• Weight: 1114 g
• Illustrations: zahlr. meist farb. Abb.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Architektur: Öffentliche Einrichtungen, Verwaltungsgebäude, Einzelne Architekten und Architekturbüros, Architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial