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Article: Teaching structures to architecture students.(Building Structures: From Concepts to Design, 2d ed.)(Book review)
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- Architectural Science Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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Building Structures--From Concepts to Design. Second Edition, by Malcolm Millais. Spon Press, London 2005 [our copy from Taylor and Francis. PO Box 6329, Basingstoke RG24 8DR (UK)]. 423 pp., ill., index. Pbk. Price: $A 24.99.
Structures used to be a major part of the architectural curriculum, and the oldest practitioners remember the days when at least some of the architects did their own structural design, including the necessary, and at times quite lengthy, calculations. This changed when an increasing number of structural engineers established consulting practices for architects, and again when computer programs became available for doing the ...