Since the firm's founding twenty-five years ago, AKT II have forged
an international practice that unifies the cultures and disciplines
of architecture and structural engineering. This book is an engine
for critical reflection on the scope, potential, and limits of what
they have come to define as design engineering. Structured into
five discursive domains-scale, variability, attitude, reverse
engineering, and the craftsmanship of engineering-the book presents
a robust selection of the firm's endeavours, which together
demonstrate a vast range of encounters and processes in design.
Common among them is a desire to understand and reshape the
boundaries of the discipline of structural engineering, along with
its links to fields such as philosophy, computer science, and
geography. Interlaced with the projects, texts by contributors from
varying fields engage the theoretical discussions and social
conditions that bind contemporary practice. Matters of Engineering
Design: AKT II balances structural concerns that require an
equilibrium of internal and external forces, a clear understanding
of boundary conditions, and knowledge of the properties of material
with the overarching challenges that society faces today, including
advances in technology, changing economic orders, and ecological
responsibility. With contributions by William Baker, David Basulto,
Hanif Kara, Jayne Kelley, Priya Khanchandani, Adrian Lahoud, Lesley
Lokko, Ibrahim Mahama, Stephen Parnell, Vicky Richardson, and Ellis
Woodman.
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