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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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 KawaguchiAlso 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 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 W...
