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Frame and Form (estructura y forma) was born with the modest desire to promote and disseminate structural design culture. The content of this blog is based on small articles where synthesized information is provided about accomplishments , events, history, contests and curiosities of marked structural works like bridges or buildings. These capsules of information intended [...]

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22 February, 2010

understanding bridge collapses

This is one of those books that probably no designer wants to see your work reflected. However Björn Åkesson work is very valuable because it shows examples of what happens when things go wrong, very bad.

Portada - Understanding Bridge Collapses

22 February, 2009

TO ERR IS HUMAN: Failure as Part of the Design Process

As part of the COLLAPSE(with) conferences IED is holding a three days introductory event. I have been invited as a lecturer as mentioned  before here. I invite you to read the abstract and come along:
March 12th, 19:00 H
TO ERR IS HUMAN! We must acknowledge that even the most engineered systems can collapse. Failure is a [...]

21 February, 2009

collapse(with):

A cycle of conferences
Here I present you an interesting cycle of conferences (click on the poster to enlarge). Sergio Carratalá (Me) has been invited as lecturer and here the prologue.
…complexity, self-sufficiency, spontaneity, incompleteness and other conceptual notions constitute the backbone of a realm of studies which focuses the evolution of systems of different kinds. Scholars [...]