Engineering excellence.(View) From: The Architectural Review | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Dawson, Layla | COPYRIGHT 2004 EMAP Architecture. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Contrary to popular architectural opinion, structural engineers are not all stuck in mud calculating how many I-beams it takes to cross a motorway. Ove Arup showed how creative and modest engineers could be, designing lightweight structures, appropriate to function and place, with an economy of materials which attained the highest aesthetic and ecological standards. German engineers Schlaich + Bergermann belong to this tradition. Born in 1934 and 1941 respectively, the two partners ...