Title: Seven structural engineers : the Felix Candela lectures /
Authors: Nordenson, Guy.; Candela, Félix, 1910-1997.; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the United States and Canada by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Structural engineering.; Architecture, Modern
Abstract: "Between 1998 and 2005, the Structural Engineers Association of New York and The Museum of Modern Art's Department of Architecture and Design and the School of Architecture at both Princeton University and MIT, co-sponsored a lecture in honor of the renowned Spanish and Mexican structural engineer Felix Candela, who led the early exploration of concrete shell structures. These lectures, given by some of Candela's most eminent and creative colleagues and successors - structural engineers working worldwide on everything from high-rise office-building to bridges to entertainment centers to Olympic stadiums. This book documents those talks and in so doing opens the world of structural engineering to a wider audience. This book includes more than 200 color images."--Jacket.
Contents: 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.