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Engineers
This innovative new book presents the vast historical sweep of engineering innovation and technological change to describe and illustrate engineering design and what conditions, events, cultural climates and personalities have brought it to its present state.
Matthew Wells covers topics based on an examination of paradigm shifts, the contribution of individuals, important structures and influential disasters to show approaches to the modern concept of structure. By demonstrating the historical context of engineering, Wells has created a guide to design like no other, inspirational for both students and practitioners working in the fields of architecture and engineering.
Matthew Wells, a chartered architect and engineer, has taught at various schools of architecture including Nottingham School of Architecture as a unit tutor. He is an external examiner at Liverpool University School of Architecture and has been a technical tutor at the Bartlett School of Architecture for 10 years. He is best known as the founder and director of Techniker Ltd, Consulting Structural Engineers and has worked with leading architects such as Lifschutz Davidson and Eva Jiricna on footbridges, glass staircases and many contemporary leading edge projects.
Engineers
A history of engineering and structural design
Matthew Wells
LONDON AND NEW YORK
First published 2010
by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009.
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2010 Matthew Wells
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Archivio Pier Luigi Nervi, PARC/MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo,
Collezione MAXXI Architettura , 11.4
The Art Institute of Chicago , 12.0
BAE Systems via Brooklands Museum , 10.0
Dr Marco Baldari, Grosseto, Italy , 4.6
Bibliotheque Nationale de France , 4.3
Robert Cortright/Bridge Ink , 5.2
Robert Cortright/Bridge Ink , 5.4
Collections/John D. Beldom , 7.2
Collections/Gena Davis , 11.9
Constance Tipper: personal papers, Newnham College Archives C, 10.5
Copyrights have expired , 9.3
Yann Arthus-Bertrand/CORBIS , 1.0
Alinari Archives/CORBIS , 1.5
Historical Picture Archive/CORBIS , 1.8
G.E Kidder Smith/CORBIS , 2.2
Bettmann/CORBIS , 2.3
Owen Franken/CORBIS , 2.6
Galen Rowell/CORBIS , 3.0
Murat Taner/CORBIS , 3.2a
Christophe Boisvieux/CORBIS , 3.5
Reuters/CORBIS , 3.6
Kevin R. Morris/CORBIS , 4.0
Paul Almasy/CORBIS , 4.1
Christies Images/CORBIS , 4.2
Bettmann/CORBIS , 4.5
Alinari Archives/CORBIS , 4.7
Nick Wheeler/CORBIS , 5.0
Bettmann/CORBIS , 6.4
Annebicque Bernard/CORBIS SYGMA , 6.5a
Martin Jones/CORBIS , 6.6
Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS , 7.5
Bettmann/CORBIS , 8.3
CORBIS , 8.4
Bettmann/CORBIS , 10.1
Museum of Flight/CORBIS , 10.3
Museum of Flight/CORBIS , 10.4
Michael S. Yamashita/CORBIS , 11.2
Yann Arthus-Berttrand/CORBIS , 11.3
Joseph Sahm/CORBIS , 11.5
Charles & Josette Lenars/CORBIS , 11.8
Courtesy of Water Resources Centre Archives, University of California, Berkeley , 9.7
Courtesy of gmp Architekten , 12.10
Courtesy of Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Photographer Hickey , 12.4
Courtesy of Richard Rogers Partnership , 12.3
Courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John Soanes Museum , 2.1
Courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John Soanes Museum , 6.0a
Courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John Soanes Museum , 6.1
Richard Dietrich , 8.2
Mary Evans Picture Library , 9.6
Flickr , 1.1
Flickr , 1.4
Flickr , 9.0
Jochen Binn/Flickr , 4.4
Frank Scherschel/Time & Life Picture/Getty Images , 11.0
Julius Shulman Photography Archive/J. Paul Getty Trust , 12.1
Institution of Civil Engineers , 7.3
Institution of Civil Engineers , 7.4
iStockphoto.com/Dmitriy Yakovlev , Cover photo
Loyola University Chicago Special Collections , 5.3
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn 1982 , 2.5
Adrian Mann , 11.10
Barry Mason , 12.7
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London , 7.6
Naval History & Heritage Command/NH9735723-K , 8.7
NYT/Redux/eyevine , 8.0
David Robert, Lithograph, Copyrights have expired, 1.3
Techniker Ltd , 1.2
Techniker Ltd , 1.6
Techniker Ltd , 1.7
Techniker Ltd , 3.2.b
Techniker Ltd , 3.4
Techniker Ltd , 5.1
Techniker Ltd , 6.0.b
Techniker Ltd , 6.5.b
Techniker Ltd , 7.1
Techniker Ltd , 8.1
Techniker Ltd , 8.6
Techniker Ltd , 9.1
Techniker Ltd , 9.5
Techniker Ltd , 9.8
Techniker Ltd , 10.2
Techniker Ltd , 12.2
Techniker Ltd , 12.5.b
Techniker Ltd , 12.8
Techniker Ltd , 12.8.b
Techniker Ltd , 12.9
Tiefbauamt Graubunden, Switzerland , 9.4
Howard Norfolk, My Drive Around Jamaica/www.aquarticles.com , 6.3
www.imageshack.us, 11.6
Jacques Mossot/www.structurae.de , 9.2
Mark R.Freese/www.structurae.de , 12.11
Nicolas Janberg/www.structurae.de , 2.4
Nicolas Janberg/www.structurae.de , 11.7
Yoshito Isono/www.structurae.de , 11.1
Wikipedia.de/Dantla , 2.0
Wikipedia.org/Jon Anderson , 12.5
www.wikimedia.org , 6.2
www.wikimedia.org , 7.0
www.wikipedia.org , 3.1
www.wikipedia.org , 12.6
Rolf Mller/www.wikipedia.org , 3.3
The Yorck Project: 10,000 Meisterwerke der Malerei/www.zeno.org , 8.5
For me architecture proved to be difficult and diffuse while engineering promised the crystalline and complete. Why then do I attempt to problematise engineering in these pages?
The craft of engineering has an easy elegance, the classical maths it uses is appealing and the expedients available to practice give the sense of a game well played.
However, simultaneous with the feeling that the general project of structural engineering is nearly complete comes another unease: that maybe the whole edifice has more contingency than inevitability about it. Maybe there are other equally valid ways of designing building structures. Is the consultant engineers role petering out or instead on the verge of a new diversity?
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