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Seven Structural Engineers : The Felix Candela Lectures by Felix Candela, Terence Riley and Guy Nordenson (2008, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherD.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
ISBN-100870707035
ISBN-139780870707032
eBay Product ID (ePID)50592973
Product Key Features
Book TitleSeven Structural Engineers : the Felix Candela Lectures
Number of Pages188 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicStructural, Criticism
IllustratorYes
GenreTechnology & Engineering, Architecture
AuthorFelix Candela, Terence Riley, Guy Nordenson
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight22.6 Oz
Item Length9.8 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceYoung Adult Audience
LCCN2007-921200
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromCollege Freshman
Number of Volumes1 vol.
Dewey Decimal624.1
Grade ToUP
SynopsisSince 1997, the Structural Engineers Association of New York has hosted a lecture series in honour of the structural engineer Felix Candela. This book presents all eight lectures in written form for the first time. The lectures cover varying topics related to structural engineering, and have been given by some of the most prominent structural engineers working and teaching today. Each essay is fully illustrated., Since 1997, the Structural Engineers Association of New York and The Museum of Modern Art, together with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton University, have hosted a lecture series in honor of the structural engineer Felix Candela, who led the early exploration of tensile shell structures. This book compiles the first eight of those lectures, which were given by some of the most prominent structural engineers working today. Each text is accompanied by images. Among the contributors are Jorg Schlaich (whom Frank Gehry calls the world's greatest structural engineer), Christian Menn, and Leslie Robertson, the engineer of the original World Trade Center towers, as well as Stanford Anderson, Professor of History and Architecture at MIT on the work of the great Uruguayan engineer Eladio Dieste. The editor of this volume, Guy Nordenson, is a structural engineer in New York City and an Associate Professor of Architecture and Structures at Princeton University. Among his many projects as a structural engineer are the World Trade Center Emergency Building Damage Assessment and the World Trade Center Tower l.
LC Classification NumberTA637
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