Main entry:

Nordenson, Guy, author.

Title & Author:

Patterns and structure : selected writings 1972-2008 / Guy Nordenson ; Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Publications Fund, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University ; [editing: Ellen Mey and Rebecca Veit].

Publication:

Baden : Lars Müller, [2010]

Description:

463 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Collection of texts published previously.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sublimating structures-a short memoir -- Poem -- In search of Ezra Pound -- Tensegrity from Greece to cambridge -- Rune-an MIT journal of arts and letters -- Aseismic reinforcement of existing buildings -- Notes on the seismic design of concentrically braced steel frames -- Seismicity and seismic hazards in the New York City area -- Wind versus seismic design -- Seismic design of suspended boiler structures -- Seismic codes -- Built value and earthquake risk -- Seismic design requirements for regions of moderate seismicity -- Earthquake loss estimation for the New York City metropolitan region -- An inventive nature -- The spirit of measure -- Time and section study -- Notes on bucky: patterns and structure -- With great joy and expectations -- Constellations -- Critical mass -- Light construction symposium -- Notes on light and structure -- Concrete theater -- Apocryphal -- Action and practice -- The lineage of structure and the Kimbell Art Museum -- Collaboration -- The daily practice of collaboration -- City square: structural engineering, democracy, and architecture -- Duelling partners -- Tall building structures since the World Trade Center: art, craft, and industry -- Tall building as metaphor -- Freedom from fear -- Truth in tall buildings.

Summary:

"This rich collection of writings and criticisms by structural engineer and Princeton University professor Guy Nordenson, brings together previously published essays on structural engineering, architecture, design, and seismic research from 1973 to 2008. Decade by decade, Nordenson's essays provide the unique viewpoint of the structural engineer and design collaborator, adding context that relates not only to the history of architecture and engineering, but locates these fields in a larger network of cultural relevance. Originally commissioned by publications like The New York Times, Domus, The Harvard Design Magazine, Perspecta, Lotus, Earthquake Spectra, and MoMA's Tall Buildings exhibition catalog, Nordenson's writings investigate a wide range of genres: from technical reports on seismicity, methods and technologies in structural engineering, architectural criticisms, the importance of collaboration in design, to the metaphor of tall buildings, design democracy at Ground Zero, and engineering history and theory. This compilation is a wonderful reflection on Nordenson's career thus far and the changing pace and stature of structural engineering."--Publisher.

ISBN:

9783037782194 (pbk.)
3037782196 (pbk.)

Subject:

Structural engineering.
Structural design.
Technique de la construction.
Constructions Calcul.
structural engineering.
Ingenieurbau
Tragwerk
Struktur Design.
Design Struktur.
Struktur Design 0 Gesamtdarstellung.
Design Struktur 0 Gesamtdarstellung.
Byggnadsteknik.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 270082
Call No.: BIB 202728
Status: Available