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Seven structural engineers : the felix candela lectures /
edited by Guy Nordenson.
- New York : Museum of Modern Art : 2008.
- 187 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-177) and index.
Preface / Terence Riley -- Constellations / Guy Nordenson -- The Felix Candela Lectures. Eladio Dieste: a principled builder / Stanford Anderson -- Informal networks / Cecil Balmond -- A life in structural engineering / Leslie E. Robertson -- Shell structures: Candela in America and what we did in Europe / Heinz Isler -- The design of structures: from hard to soft / Mamoru Kawaguchi -- The art of bridge design / Christian Menn -- On the cultural and social responsibility of the structural engineer / Jörg Schlaich -- Thin-shell concrete structures: the master builders / David Billington and Maria M. Garlock -- Authors' biographies.
0870707035 (pbk.) 9780870707032 (pbk.)
Structural engineering.
TA633 / .S48 2008
624.1 / S497
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-177) and index.
Preface / Terence Riley -- Constellations / Guy Nordenson -- The Felix Candela Lectures. Eladio Dieste: a principled builder / Stanford Anderson -- Informal networks / Cecil Balmond -- A life in structural engineering / Leslie E. Robertson -- Shell structures: Candela in America and what we did in Europe / Heinz Isler -- The design of structures: from hard to soft / Mamoru Kawaguchi -- The art of bridge design / Christian Menn -- On the cultural and social responsibility of the structural engineer / Jörg Schlaich -- Thin-shell concrete structures: the master builders / David Billington and Maria M. Garlock -- Authors' biographies.
0870707035 (pbk.) 9780870707032 (pbk.)
Structural engineering.
TA633 / .S48 2008
624.1 / S497