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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, 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 [...]