Engineering excellence.Contrary to popular architectural opinion, structural engineers are not all stuck in mud calculating how many I-beams it takes to cross a motorway. Ove Arup Sir Ove Nyquist Arup CBE, MICE, MIStructE, (born at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1895 and died in 1988) was a leading Anglo-Danish engineer, the founder of the internationally important firm of Arup and generally considered the foremost engineer of his time. showed how creative and modest engineers could be, designing lightweight structures, appropriate to function and place, with an economy of materials which attained the highest aesthetic and ecological standards. German engineers Schlaich + Bergermann belong to this tradition. Born in 1934 and 1941 respectively, the two partners founded their office in 1980 and now have a fifty strong team based in Stuttgart. Along the way, Jorg Schlaich has collected honorary titles and academy memberships from New Delhi New Delhi (dĕl`ē), city (1991 pop. 294,149), capital of India and of Delhi state, N central India, on the right bank of the Yamuna River. to Washington. He was a Stuttgart University professor and is now an honorary professor at Shanghai's Tongji University. Both partners have received prizes for their collective life's work Life's Work is a sitcom that aired from 1996 to 1997 on the American Broadcasting Company channel that starred Lisa Ann Walter as Lisa Ann Minardi Hunter, the assistant district attorney who had a husband named Kevin Hunter and individual projects. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This exhibition is unique: the first dedicated to engineers at the Deutsches Architektur Museum, and the first international show to feature German engineers. Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize winning architect based in Los Angeles, California. His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. has called Jorg Schlaich, 'One of the greatest structural engineers of our time'. In one of his own anecdotes Schlaich tells how, as third prize winner for the 1972 Munich Olympic Stadium The Olympic Stadium is the name usually given to the big centrepiece stadium of the Summer Olympic Games. Traditionally, the opening and closing ceremonies and the track & field competitions are held in the Olympic Stadium. , he was called in to help the winners, Gunter Behnisch, Heinz Isler, and Jurgen Joedicke, realize a 35 000 sq m tent roof based on Frei Otto's Montreal pavilion at Expo '67. The technology did not yet exist for what was to become the world's first permanent cable net structure. 'Without Behnisch there wouldn't have been the idea, without Otto there wouldn't have been the inspiration and without Schlaich + Bergermann it wouldn't have stood up.' Projects such as I. M. Pei's German History Museum (2002), Frank Gehry's Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance The Museum of Tolerance is a multimedia museum in Los Angeles, California, with an associated museum in New York City, designed to examine racism and prejudice in the United States and the world with a strong focus on the history of the Holocaust. (2007), Massimiliano Fuksas' Milan Trade Fair hall (2004) and GMP's Berlin Central Railway Station (2002) all bear the imprint of their architects, but when displayed together, the Schlaich + Bergermann family likeness is clear. Continual research backs up the firm's work on cable net roofs and facades, shells, masts and towers, pneumatic and textile structures, and in collaboration with Pfeifer, the cable and lift manufacturers, they have rediscovered cast steel for tension connections. But economy in design is not an end in itself. Structures also have social importance. For Calcutta's Hooghly Bridge, which took over twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. to complete, Schlaich + Bergermann designed an open steel grid with riveted connections, since imported weldable steel and equipment was unaffordable un·af·ford·a·ble adj. Too expensive: medical care that has become unaffordable for many. un . Their design made use of local (but not primitive) skills and thousands of people found employment. Schlaich + Bergermann see the future of design in both appropriate local and sustainable universal solutions. Partner Wolfgang Schiel heads a team developing technologies for solar-power generators. Their solar dishes are in use in Europe, Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (sä  `dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop. and India and last year they completed a 4350 sq m parabolic trough A parabolic trough is a type of solar thermal collector. It is constructed as a long parabolic mirror (usually coated silver or polished aluminum) with a Dewar tube running its length at the focal point. Sunlight is reflected by the mirror and concentrated on the Dewar tube. collector for a pilot solar power plant in Kramer Junction, California. These 'green' structures have their own strange, functional beauty. In the 1960s, when computers were as big as buildings, structural engineers were denigrated as failed aeronautical engineers. Times have changed, but bridges are still regarded as the purest forms of structure. The firm has produced many elegant examples from Stuttgart's Nesenbach Valley (1999), to Ting Kau Ting Kau (汀九) is an area in west Tsuen Wan District, New Territories, Hong Kong. Ting Kau Village is a village near the shore. The beach nearby, Ting Kau Beach was once a popular beach in Hong Kong. in Hong Kong (1998). Schlaich + Bergermann are currently collaborating with architects on six Chinese mainland projects but Jorg Schlaich still has an unfulfilled wish, 'We would really like to design a bridge. China has such wonderful rivers.' At the Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, until 15 February 2004. It then travels to Hamburg, New Haven, Shanghai, Vienna, Venice, Beijing, and Chicago. A catalogue with English/German text is published by Prestel Verlag, Munich/New York. There will be an accompanying international conference: Form and Construction, 9 February 2004 at DAM, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Register at: inka.plechaty@stadt-frankfurt.de |
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