Frame and Form

This book, published by Museum of Modern Art in New York (MOMA), collects seven lectures designers whose work transcends the field of structural design. This series of lectures are named in honor of architect and builder Felix Candela.

All designers featured in this book share a constant in his work: the continuing effort to reach beyond the barriers and technological transfer, aesthetic and professional.

From the surprising lightness of brick structures Eladio Dieste, to the slender concrete bridges Christian Menn, this book offers readers the possibility of knowing the path and concerns of some teachers of the structural design. One of the great attractions of Seven Structural Engineers is not merely a collection of projects or third-person narratives. In the vast majority of the chapters are the designers who describe their professional experiences and personal challenges throughout your career.

The book fulfills the role perfectly informative highlighting MOMA's existing creativity and versatility in the field of structural design.

Seven Structural Engineers: The Felix candela Lectures.
Several authors; coordinated by Guy Nordenson.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
188 pages. English.
ISBN: 978-0870707032.

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