ON DESIGN ENGINEERING

摘要

The pioneering collaborations that the structural engineers Adams Kara Taylor (AKT) have sought out with cutting-edge architectural practices have given them a leading role in the formation of an interactive design approach. (Recent collaborators include Foreign Office Architects, Zaha Hadid Architects, Heatherwick Studio, Fielden Clegg Bradley, Foster + Partners, Will Alsop, Amanda Levete, BIG, AHMM and David Chipperfield.) With the firm's work being the subject of two recent monographs, Design Engineering and From Control to Design: Parametric/Algorithmic Architecture, and an exhibition, 'Adams Kara Taylor: AKT at Work' at the Architectural Association (AA) in London in 2009, AKT has begun to articulate a theoretical framework for the practice of architectural structural engineering.