Architecture and engineering

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/palimpsesto.21.9505

Keywords:

architecture, engineering, technology.

Abstract

The history of technology accounts for how engineers and architects have shaped their working relationship through a long process that after the original conflict of the 19th century and the period of idealization of the modern movement tended to an inevitable confluence. Since the second half of the 20th century, there are many examples of this fruitful relationship that leads us to underline the collective aspect of construction that it will not be possible to conceive individually from then on. The appearance of profiles of engineers close to design, or of architects with sufficient technical solvency help to blur that limit that a visionary like Le Corbusier anticipated in his famous drawing published in the preface of the book “Precisions regarding a current state of architecture and urbanism ”in 1960. The cases of Rice and Piano, Utzon and Waschmann, Kommendant and Kahn or even as late as the end of the 19th century, Adler and Sulivan are examples of these couples that cannot be separated to understand their work.

Author Biography

Alberto Peñin Llobell, ETSAB. UPC

Catedrático de Proyectos Arquitectónicos de la UPC

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Published

2020-07-07

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Critique