TY - BOOK ID - 142208291 TI - Technoscape : the architecture of engineers AU - Casciato, Maristella AU - Ciorra, Pippo PY - 2022 SN - 9788855211000 8855211005 PB - Florence Forma DB - UniCat KW - Structural engineering KW - Building KW - Buildings KW - Architecture KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142208291 AB - Catalogue of the exhibition Technoscape. The Architecture of Engineers, curated by Pippo Ciorra and Maristella Casciato, hosted by MAXXI from October 2022 to April 2023, and focusing on the relationship between structural engineering, whether vernacular or avant-garde, and the invasion of technology into our operating and living spaces. The volume reflects the exhibition's double register, which, questioning the role that architecture can play in the near future, is arranged in two sections corresponding with the two great universes of technological innovation and construction engineering. Through numerous contributions resulting from the collaboration with universities and research centres, the book retraces and examines the many occasions in which architecture, engineering and science overlapped during the twentieth century: first in the heroic and then more mature phase of the diffusion of reinforced concrete, then with the affirmation of hi-tech construction methods in the 1970s and 1980s and lately with the irruption of contemporary digitally controlled technologies. The publication is enriched by an extensive photographic apparatus through which the symbolic buildings of the great structural engineers from the post-war period to the present day can be fully appreciated. -- Publisher's website. ER -