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Structural engineering and architectural form: are engineers playing 'catch up', enabling forms far removed from structural ideals? Asks Matthew Wells.(riposte)(Column)
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The capability of engineers to provide any progression or divergence in architecture is highly questionable. Contrary to David Dunster's suggestion in his Comment article introducing this issue's theme (p36), rationalist thinking in architecture does indeed tend to produce a series of architectural types that appear again and again. Where does a presumption of innovative progression come from? Is it not more like a continuous present, reworking a lexicon of forms only occasionally to new purpose? Ideals of steady improvement give way to the phenomenon seen on the ground, where an ...
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