Historical Perspectives & Engineering Oddities
The Lighter Side: How to Build a Bridge
So, you wanna build a bridge? Who doesn’t? If you’re feeling a little stumped for inspiration, we’re offering to be your muse and share with you some brilliant (if not entirely practical) ideas.
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The Lighter Side: Half-Dressed for Half-Success?
From pants to productivity, the perils of lockdown are affecting millions of remote workers worldwide. Here are a few key points to maintain your sanity, dignity and reputation.
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Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe Architecture
Given the choice by the Nazis to adapt his architecture school’s curriculum in order to stay open, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe shut it down. This was no small thing, flying in the face of Hitler’s wishes and closing a school that was greatly influential.
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Stable Datums and Silver Linings for You in a Time of Adversity
The ability to deliver buildings that are markedly different, but which obviously carry the signature of a single creator is quite an achievement.
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Walter Gropius Buildings
It’s kind of interesting that the founder of one of the most influential schools of design could not draw and was reliant on the work of his collaborators in order to bring his plans to fruition.
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Frank Gehry
The ability to deliver buildings that are markedly different, but which obviously carry the signature of a single creator is quite an achievement. Frank Gehry was named the most important architect of our age by Vanity Fair for a reason.
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Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid is probably the most famous female architect in the world. Nicknamed “The Queen of the Curve” by The Guardian newspaper, Hadid was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize and is the only woman to get the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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