The Structure of Design: An Engineer's Extraordinary Life in Architecture - Hardcover

Robertson, Leslie Earl

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ISBN 10: 1580934293 ISBN 13: 9781580934299

Publisher: The Monacelli Press, 2017

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In The Structure of Design, Leslie Earl Robertson recounts a storied career in engineering which has generated among the most innovative and formally daring buildings of the modern era, as well as his extensive collaborations with several titans of the practice: Minoru Yamasaki, Philip Johnson, Max Abramovitz, Romaldo Giurgola, I. M. Pei, Pei Partnership, KPF, Kiyonori Kikutake, and Gunnar Birkerts. Robertson’s large-scale projects with some of the leading sculptors...

About the Author

Leslie E. Robertson is the founder of Leslie E. Robertson Associates. In 1952, he graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of Science, and soon began his career as a structural engineer. He has lectured all over the world and has earned numerous awards and honors, including the U.K.’s Institution of Structural Engineers Gold Medal; America’s Most Creative Engineer Award; and the AIA...

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“The Structure of Design wonderfully documents how important Les Robertson has been to good architectural design—and what a beautiful life he has led as well.”
—David Childs/SOM

“This is an informative memoir by one of the world's leading structural engineers, explaining how some of his essential works were realized from a technical as well as architectural perspective. You needn't be an engineer to understand his accessible and humane accounts of what gets...

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