Estonian Museum of Architecture (Ed.)
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Miracles in Concrete Structural Engineer August Komendant PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
400 100 b/w, 150 color 28.5 × 22.0 cm
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978-3-0356-2512-7 EN
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APRIL 2022
The Estonian-American civil engineer August Komendant (1906–1992) worked with numerous famous architects and engineers on several of the 20th century’s most iconic buildings.Concrete was Komendant’s passion through decades. He used his expertise in designing structures as different as the Kadriorg Stadium grandstand in Tallinn, Estonia (Elmar Lohk, 1938), the Habitat ’67 experimental housing complex in Montréal, Canada (Moshe Safdie, 1967) and the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, USA (Louis I. Kahn, 1972).
Komendant combined technical expertise with a keen sense of aesthetics: as an engineer, he valued the timeless and enduring qualities of architecture. He knew that miracles require more than spreadsheets and a budget – the creative impulse is essential. Carl-Dag Lige Architecture critic and historian, curator at the Estonian Museum of Architecture
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One of the most innovative civil engineers of the 20th century
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Specialized in the use of reinforced concrete and various other concrete technologies
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Structural engineer to architects such as Louis I. Kahn, Moshe Safdie, and Eero Saarinen
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An important representative of Italian modernism
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Systematic analysis of innovative residential floor plans
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Newly created drawings of approx. 60 buildings
Luciano Motta
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The Built Work of Giuseppe Pizzigoni PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
304 300 color 24.0 × 17.0 cm
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ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTS | BUILDINGS
MAY 2022
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Giuseppe Pizzigoni, an architect of classical and postwar modernism in northern Italy, owes his reputation to his connections with the Novecento movement, his independence from fascism, and his interest in innovative residential layouts. This study presents for the first time the architect’s entire built work, comprising not only residential structures but also sacral buildings, monuments, educational and industrial buildings. Pizzigoni’s experimental spirit drove him to create original designs across diverse fields of
architecture, typology and forms of living, construction systems and load-bearing structures, geometry and aesthetics. Each of the approx. 60 works is described through the plans of the building, an axonometric view and detailed drawings, all of which have been redrawn for this publication. Luciano Motta Instructor and researcher at the Chair and Institute of Housing and Principles of Design at RWTH Aachen University