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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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17 May, 2010

Arups on Engineering III – Key Speech

This is the third and final post of the miniseries Arups on Engineering. Previously we talked about the concepts of Learning Society and Integrated Design present in the various tests that make up the book on Engineering Arups. In this post we focus on her famous “Key Speech” than Ove Arup conducted in 1970.

3 May, 2010

II Conference on Bridges in San Sebastian

From 27 th to 29 th April, took place in San Sebastián-Donostia the Second Conference on Bridges, organized by the Spanish Road Association. Form and Frame had the opportunity to attend and now briefly reveals some of the highlights of those days.

27 April, 2010

Arups on Engineering II – Integrated Design

In this second post of the miniseries on Arup Engineering (here the first ) discuss the concept of integrated design architecture also known as total.

19 April, 2010

Arups on Engineering I – Learning Society

Arups on Engineering was published to celebrate the 50 anniversary of the founding of Arup by Ove Arup In 1946. This book reveals the depths of the international firm of designers across 30 essays by some of its members. Several disciplines in the book in the line of “total design“, posts in this miniseries will focus on the texts related to the structural design.

Kingsgatebridge - Foto por Iqbal Aalam

5 April, 2010

Robert Maillart

Creator of some of the most spectacular engineering works of the last century, Robert Maillart was one of the first structural designers to understand and explore the possibilities of an innovative material at the time, reinforced concrete.

Hombachbru?cke Schangnau (c) ETHBIB Bildarchiv

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

16 November, 2009

Several Bones Exhibition – Miguel Fisac

In this installment of the library we talk about the exhibition Bones Various. This shows part of the architect's work Miguel Fisac Serna (1913-2006),specifically, a group of precast concrete pieces whose shape is similar to bony structures.

son Lindman

Jaroslav Pelikan hit upon the idea of such sites following a creative process whose main premise is summarized in the following quote…

12 December, 2008

Richard Serra. inspiration 1.0

Open Frame and Form with a brief article on Richard Serra, inspiration for the structural designer, which was recently awarded the Order of Arts and Letters from Spain.

Serra was born in San Francisco in 1939 and from 1968 His work is characterized by the use of materials associated with [...]