Patterns and Structure

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Architecture

ISBN: 9783037782194
English edition
Lars Müller Publishers
Softcover, 464 pages
16,5 x 24 cm
illustrated
October 2010
€40,00 (excl. VAT)

Patterns and Structure

Selected Writings

Guy Nordenson

This collection of writings by Princeton University professor Guy Nordenson brings together previously published essays from 1973 to 2008. Nordenson’s essays provide the unique viewpoint of the structural engineer and design collaborator, adding context that relates not only to the history of architecture and engineering, but locates these fields in a network of cultural relevance.

Originally commissioned by publications like The New York Times, Domus, The Harvard Design Magazine, Perspecta, Lotus, Earthquake Spectra, and MoMA’s Tall Buildings exhibition catalog, Nordenson’s writings investigate a wide range of genres: from technical reports on seismicity, methods and technologies in structural engineering, architectural criticisms, the importance of collaboration in design, to the metaphor of tall buildings, design democracy at Ground Zero, and engineering history and theory.