The year of structural engineering

摘要

Forty-two years after the publication of Reyner Banham's The Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment, the uk architectural profession has finally got to grips with building services. Although structural engineering is much more complex than it at first appears, many architects still find it more approachable because it uses scale drawings and is concerned with form - as well as performance, metrics and specification, which are the main focus of building services.