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Connexions - The Unseen Hand of Tony Hunt (Paperback, New)
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Connexions - The Unseen Hand of Tony Hunt (Paperback, New)
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'...His ambition and desire to experiment are without parallel in
the last 40 years of structural engineering...Within the pages of
this book you'll find yourself enthralled by the effectiveness and
originality of his work. Time and again he has brought structures
of astounding ingenuity to life. Structural engineers that dream on
the scale of Tony Hunt are few and far between'. Extract from
Foreword by Sir James Dyson Tony Hunt spent the six decades of his
professional and personal life interacting with the elite in the
fields of engineering, architecture and industrial design - this is
his story. His life and career are described, showing how he formed
lasting relationships with architects, patrons, artists,
photographers, industrial designers, writers, critics and with his
own staff. Connexions demonstrates the way in which he was able to
adapt his engineering solutions in collaboration with architects in
the formative stages of the design process to find structural
solutions sympathetic to their architectural aspirations.It
examines the quest for technological advance and Hunt's passion for
industrial and product design which led him to favour an
industrialized component-based approach to engineering in
architecture. He showed an unerring ability to identify and express
key components within a design, concentrating on the way they
connected together, and demonstrated a practical knowledge and
experience of the technology required for their manufacture. The
results of Hunt's contribution, and the many prestigious
commissions he received, when working with the generation of
acclaimed architects emerging from the Architectural Association,
the Royal College of Art and from Yale University scholarships in
the early period of his career, are well-documented and publicised.
Direct comparisons with the great European and American architect
engineers such as Richard Buckminster Fuller, Charles Eames, Fritz
Haller and Jean Prouve are justifiably made. Connexions also
concentrates on the personal and professional relationships that
Hunt formed during his career and, by reference to past and
contemporary architects, engineers, industrial designers, artists,
etc., the place that Tony Hunt occupies in the history of UK
design.
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