Product Description

As architectural projects have grown larger and more complex, as materials have become more specialized and advanced, as the world's cities have developed in size and density, the collaborative partnership of architects and structural engineers has gained prominence. Many of the major works of the early twenty-first century would have been difficult to build or even conceive without the contributions of firms like Ove Arup & Partners, Buro Happold, and Mutsuro Sasaki & Partners, to name just a few. Support and Resist is the first book to focus on the revolution in engineering culture in which structure shares the stage with design.

In profiles of fourteen American and international engineers and more than thirty case studies, Nina Rappaport details facets of this revolution: collaboration, intuition, structural integration, hybrid structures, structure as decoration, computer workflow, and fabrication technologies.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #239805 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-08
• Released on: 2007-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

About the Author
Nina Rappaport is an architectural writer, editor, and curator. She is the editor of publications at the Yale School of Architecture, including CAC: Contemporary Art Center, Zaha Hadid Studio 2000, and The Millennium House: Peggy Deamer Studio 2000-2001.

Customer Reviews

The Structure of Design
Nina Rappaport's splendid new book, 'Support and Resist,' reveals the underlying force in so much high-visibility recent architecture, especially for large-scale buildings. Structural engineers have generated some of the most remarkable buildings, testing concepts and radical new shapes alongside the architects. This close collaboration, once acknowledged as a critical factor, is often more significant today than ever. Rappaport's illustrations are stunning, revealing the process alongside the magnificent realizations. This book helps reconfigure our understanding of innovative modern architecture in the past and in the 21st century.