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Bridging the gap : rethinking the relationship of architect and engineer : the proceedings of the Building Arts Forum/New York Symposium held in April of 1989 at the Guggenheim Museum / Building Arts Forum/New York.

By: Building Arts Forum/New York. Symposium (1989 : Guggenheim Museum).
Contributor(s): Building Arts Forum/New York.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991Description: xv, 183 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0442001355.Subject(s): Architecture -- Technological innovations -- Congresses | Group work in architecture -- CongressesDDC classification: 720
Contents:
Part One: Schism -- The new art of engineering / David Billington -- Architectural and engineering design: Two forms of technological thought on the borderline between Empiricism and Science / Tom F. Peters -- The different projects of life of architect and the engineer / Peter McCleary -- Part Two: Collaboration -- Communication: The key to collaboration / William LeMessurier -- Collaboration and the culture of SOM / Richard Keating -- Building as craft, building as industry / Peter Rice -- Part Three: Synthesis -- Practices which integrate architecture and engineering / Joerg Schlaich -- The synthetic power of games and metaphor / Santiago Calatrava -- The artist and the scientist / Richard Rogers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One: Schism -- The new art of engineering / David Billington -- Architectural and engineering design: Two forms of technological thought on the borderline between Empiricism and Science / Tom F. Peters -- The different projects of life of architect and the engineer / Peter McCleary -- Part Two: Collaboration -- Communication: The key to collaboration / William LeMessurier -- Collaboration and the culture of SOM / Richard Keating -- Building as craft, building as industry / Peter Rice -- Part Three: Synthesis -- Practices which integrate architecture and engineering / Joerg Schlaich -- The synthetic power of games and metaphor / Santiago Calatrava -- The artist and the scientist / Richard Rogers.