Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, 156 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 242 mm x 298 mm
Tragende Linien - Tragende Flächen/Bearing Lines - Bearing Surfaces
Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, 156 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 242 mm x 298 mm
ISBN: 978-3-936681-58-1
Verlag: Edition Axel Menges
Polónyi’s bridges, built from the 1990s in the Ruhr District, have become landmarks in the meantime with their red curved tubes as a structural and aesthetic element. Today he creates his bridges as buildings over the river, so-called Living Bridges.
Polónyi’s wide range of professional experience had a considerable bearing on his teaching at Berlin and Dortmund Technical Universities. Working with architects Harald Deilmann and Josef Paul Kleihues, Polónyi established the 'Dortmund Model for the Building Sciences'. It provides joint training for architects and civil engineers in a single faculty.
The present book is appearing to accompany the exhibition of the same name in the 'Dortmun-der U'. The essays address specific aspects of Polónyi’s work. So Karl-Eugen Kurrer and Ulrich Pfammatter look at the development of structural analysis and the resultant distinction drawn between the professional territories of the civil engineer and the architect. Patrik Schumacher, partner in Zaha Hadid’s practice, represents a current po- sition in terms of cooperation between the two disciplines. Katrin Lichtenstein’s account of the Dort-mund Model and Atilla Ötes’ view of the current study situation consider the effect on training and teaching. Sonja Hnilica analyses the folding systems and shells in the church projects, and Polónyi presents his bridges, including the designs for the Living Bridges.
Ursula Kleefisch-Jobst and Peter Köddermann from the M:AI Museum für Architektur und Inge-nieurkunst NRW and Katrin Lichtenstein and Wolf-gang Sonne from the A:AI Archiv für Architektur und Ingenieurbaukunst NRW at the TU in Dortmund represent the cooperation that has taken place between the two institutions for the exhibition and the present book.
Zielgruppe
Bauingenieure, Architekten, Verkehrsplaner, Technikhistoriker, Architekturhistoriker, Kunsthistoriker