Design Engineering Adams Kara Taylor

Name: Design Engineering Adams Kara Taylor
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ISBN: 9788496540668

ISBN-10: 8496540669

ISBN-13: 9788496540668

Edition: 2008

Authors: Hanif Kara

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Collaborating with leading architects like Zaha Hadid, Foreign Office Architects, Norman Foster, and Will Alsop, Adams Kara Taylor have become the engineers of choice for projects that redefine the conventional boundaries between structural engineering and architecture. Their holistic approach expands structural thinking to include technical solutions, aesthetics, and advanced research to adapt both diverse architectures and design methodologies. Organized into a series of synthetic themes - complexity, trans-scalarity, modelling, process - this book presents a cross-section of diverse projects and methods as a manual for new relations between radical engineering and design. Contributors…

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List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Actar D
Publication date: 12/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.81" wide x 9.61" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 2.442
Language: English

Hanif Kara is design director and co-founder of London-based structural engineering practice Adams Kara Taylor (AKT II). He has taught design internationally, is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Architecture Foundation and was a commissioner for CABE from 2008-2011 (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment). He is currently a visiting professor of Architectural Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and teaches design at GSD Harvard.