Architectural form: David Dunster considers the historical relationship between architecture and engineering, how it was tested during the early years of Modernism and how structure might yet fulfil its potential for expression.(comment)(Essay) From: The Architectural Review | Date: February 1, 2007| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2007 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. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Major buildings increasingly demonstrate the ingenuity of structural engineers to provide distinctive form. Indeed, most buildings dubbed iconic by the press could be criticised as whimsical and arbitrary--the engineer's contribution. Which might lead to the question as to why clients employ architects at all--why not eliminate the middle man and go directly to the structural engineer? To broaden this question beyond the balance sheet, could architecture now proceed, even progress, without new engineering developments? Form and the processes of design by which architects seek form ...

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