Structures & Architecture
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Structures & Architecture

  1. 618 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Although Architecture and Structural Engineering have both had their own historical development, their interaction has led to many fascinating and delightful structures over time. To bring this interaction to a higher level, there is the need to stimulate the inventive and creative design of architectural structures and to persuade architects and s

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Table of contents
  3. Preface
  4. Conference organization
  5. Conference sponsors (as of April 20, 2010)
  6. Keynote lectures
  7. Technical contributions “Tectonics” in architecture: Between aesthetics and ethics
  8. Transparent structural materials—glass and plastic
  9. Timber construction
  10. Steel structures
  11. Complex forms and form-finding
  12. Innovative architectural and structural design
  13. Interdisciplinary work and educating architects and structural engineers
  14. Tall buildings
  15. Tectonics
  16. Timber structures
  17. Bridges
  18. Membranes and tensile structures
  19. Affordable houses and sustainable buildings
  20. Hybrid and composite structures
  21. Timber and masonry structures
  22. Emerging technologies
  23. Special structures
  24. Concrete structures
  25. Computer and digital design tools
  26. Masonry structures
  27. The borderline between architecture and structural engineering
  28. New materials
  29. The history of the relationship between architects and structural engineers
  30. Miscellaneous
  31. Back Cover