On Span and Space: Exploring Structures in Architecture

ISBN-13: 9780415357920 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 212 str.

Bjorn N. Sandaker

Opis

Sandaker provides readers with a better understanding of the relationship between technology and architecture. He offers a well-founded aesthetic theory to support the understanding and evaluation of a structure's form and design, examining concepts and viewpoints from both engineering and architecture.

Recenzje

"As an experienced teacher and writer, Sandaker offers a well-founded aesthetic theory to support the understanding and evaluation of a structure's form and design, examining concepts and viewpoints from both the professions of engineering and architecture." -- Wanbooks.com

Spis treści

Part 1: Philosophy, Fundamental Aspects of Structures  1.1. Defining Structures  1.2. Aspects of Structural Form  1.3. Culture and Construction  1.4. Explanation vs. Interpretation of Structural Form  Part 2: Pragmatics, Structural Form and Some Mechanical Problems  2.1. Three Basic Concepts  2.2. Structural Materials and Form  2.3. Mechanical Efficiency and the Economy of Means  2.4. Structural Scale  Part 3: Aesthetics - An Aesthetics of Structures  3.1. An Aesthetic Qualification: The Freedom to Choose  3.2. Aesthetics and Structures  3.3. The Aesthetic Experience  3.4. Aesthetics of Mechanical Function  3.5. Aesthetics of Spatial Function

O autorze

Bjørn Normann Sandaker is Professor of Architectural Technology at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design in Norway. For over twenty years he has specialized in the cross-over discipline of structural design in architecture, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in which structural mechanics are taught alongside studio work for architectural design.