Balmond is making the transition from structural engineer working alongside other architects to an architect in his own right. His structural thinking differs from that of others in his field, in its completely innovative conception of the engineer's contribution to architecture. The plasticity of architectural plans is enhanced through a decisive promotion of their structural ...(展开全部)

塞西尔·巴尔蒙德(Cecil Balmond)，台译瑟希尔·包曼，世界知名结构工程师。专注于创新结构建筑设计方向。现任奥雅纳工程公司(Ove ARUP)副总裁，合伙人，运营部负责人，高级几何部门主管。 他长期与世界顶尖建筑师合作，完成了大量富有创新意义的建筑和构筑物，将结构工程提升到一种富于创新的行为。他的兴趣特别注重于将数字、代数和音乐作为视觉元素体现几何结构的动态感。 他的近期作品包括伦敦巴特西发电厂改造工程；伦敦蛇形画廊2002年临时建筑；纽约新世贸中心和北京中国中央电视台等。 塞西尔也同时在各国多所建筑院校讲学和指导，包括美国宾夕法尼亚大学建筑学院教授，伦敦AA学校学术考试委员等。 塞西尔的著作以工程创作的创新设计探索为主，利用形式、代数推理和先进技术创造非以往的新设计。包括《数字9》(1998)，《异规》(2002)，element（200...(展开全部)

塞西尔·巴尔蒙德(Cecil Balmond)，台译瑟希尔·包曼，世界知名结构工程师。专注于创新结构建筑设计方向。现任奥雅纳工程公司(Ove ARUP)副总裁，合伙人，运营部负责人，高级几何部门主管。 他长期与世界顶尖建筑师合作，完成了大量富有创新意义的建筑和构筑物，将结构工程提升到一种富于创新的行为。他的兴趣特别注重于将数字、代数和音乐作为视觉元素体现几何结构的动态感。 他的近期作品包括伦敦巴特西发电厂改造工程；伦敦蛇形画廊2002年临时建筑；纽约新世贸中心和北京中国中央电视台等。 塞西尔也同时在各国多所建筑院校讲学和指导，包括美国宾夕法尼亚大学建筑学院教授，伦敦AA学校学术考试委员等。 塞西尔的著作以工程创作的创新设计探索为主，利用形式、代数推理和先进技术创造非以往的新设计。包括《数字9》(1998)，《异规》(2002)，element（200...(展开全部)

Balmond is making the transition from structural engineer working alongside other architects to an architect in his own right. His structural thinking differs from that of others in his field, in its completely innovative conception of the engineer's contribution to architecture. The plasticity of architectural plans is enhanced through a decisive promotion of their structural ...(展开全部)

Informal Logic is an introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticizing bad ones. Non-technical in approach, it is based on 186 examples, which Douglas Walton, a leading authority in the field of informal logic, discusses and evaluates in clear, illustrative detail. Walton explains how errors, fallacies, and other key failures of argu...(展开全部)

Informal City Caracas Case is the result of an extraordinary urban research project, initiated in the Venezuelan capital by the German Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes) and the Urban Think Tank. This publication is a form of compendium of informal and cultural developments that pertain not only to Caracas but to almost every Latin American metropolis. It o...(展开全部)

This is an autobiography of the prominent Soviet-American nuclear physicist written in a style similar to that of the later Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Georgy Gamow was born in 1904 in Odessa into a family of schoolteachers. He studied physics at the University of Odessa (then the University of Novorossia) and later at the University of Leningrad, where he befriended Lev...(展开全部)

Roughly 260 million workers in China have participated in a mass migration of peasants moving into the cities, and construction workers account for almost half of them. In Building China, Sarah Swider draws on her research in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai between 2004 and 2012, including living in an enclave, working on construction jobsites, and interviews with eighty-three...(展开全部)

Sarah Swider is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wayne State University.

In three lucid and entertaining essays, Charles Rosen explores the true meaning of music and how this meaning changes from performer to performer, as well as audience to audience.