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Structural Emergence: Architectural and Structural Design Collaboration at SOM
Author(s) -
Besserud Keith,
Katz Neil,
Beghini Alessandro
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1553
Subject(s) - work (physics) , discipline , engineering , management , sociology , engineering ethics , engineering management , social science , mechanical engineering , economics
At Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) there is a strong culture of collaboration between architects and engineers, and innovation in computational technologies ‐ the firm fervently embraced the computer over 50 years ago. Here a cross‐disciplinary team from SOM, architects Keith Besserud and Neil Katz and structural engineer Alessandro Beghini , describe their current work on FE algorithms and how this has informed recent projects.