Design Engineering Refocused

Hanif Kara is Design Director and co-founder of AKT II, the award-winning London-based firm of structural and civil engineering consultants. Hanif combines practice with teaching. He is Professor in Practice of Architectural Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is a fellow of the RIBA, ICE, RAE and IStrcutE. He is on the board of trustees of the Architecture Foundation, member of the BCO Technical Affairs Committee and formerly a CABE Commissioner.Daniel Bosia is Director at AKT II, where he heads up the specialist team P.art® (parametric applied research team), which develops bespoke software programs to manipulate and test forms and structures. Daniel is a qualified structural engineer with an MSc in Structural and Bridge Engineering and a Masters in Architecture. He was formerly head of the Advanced Geometry Unit at Arup. He is Diploma Unit Tutor at the Architectural Association in London and Honorary Professor at the Department of Architecture and Media Technology in Aalborg.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 7FUTURE FOCUS 8-9Mohsen MostafaviENGINEERING AS EXPLORATION 10-11John OchsendorfPART 1 INTRODUCTION AND TERRAIN 12-13Hanif Kara1 THE ‘PINK NOISE’ OF DESIGN ENGINEERING 14-33Hanif Kara2 DIGITAL TO POST-DIGITAL 34-51Daniel Bosia3 SO DIGITAL, IT’S ANALOGUE 52-61Jordan Brandt4 ARCHITECTURE–ENGINEERING INTERFACE 62-75Sawako Kaijima and Panagiotis Michalatos5 ABACUS AND SKETCH 76-87Andrew Ruck6 DIGITAL DEXTERITY 88-95Djordje Stojanovic7 DIGITAL VERNACULAR 96-109Jeroen Janssen and Adiam SertzuPART 2 HEFT, ONTOLOGY AND HORIZON 110-111Daniel Bosia8 GEOMETRY AND ORGANISATION 112-125Daniel Bosia9 MATERIAL MATTER 126-139Ed Moseley and Martijn Veltkamp10 STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS 140-151Philip Isaac11 FORCES OF NATURE 152-165Jeroen Janssen and Marc Zanchetta12 STRUCTURAL SKINS 166-181Marco Cerini13 HYBRID SHELLS 182-193Jeroen Janssen and Richard Parker14 TENSILE STRUCTURES 194-213Diego Cervera de la Rosa and Alessandro Margnelli; James Kingman15 INTERWEAVING PRACTICE 214-233Edoardo TibuzziEDITOR BIOGRAPHIES 234CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES 235SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 236INDEX 237-240