An Engineer Imagines [Audiobook] download free by Peter Rice
- Listen audiobook: An Engineer Imagines
- Author: Peter Rice
- Release date: 2017/8/15
- Publisher: PAVILION BOOKS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9781849944236
- Rating: 9.14 of 10
- Votes: 485
- Review by: Armani Winkler
- Review rating: 7.36 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/17
- Duration: 2H48M in 256 kbps (44.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-15
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, AIFF, MP3, WAV, FLAC, MPEG4 (compression TAR.GZ, ZIP, BZ2, TGZ, RAR, TZO)
- Total pages original book: 224
- Includes a PDF summary of 26 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 19M41S (5.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The long-awaited reissue of the autobiography of Peter Rice, one of the main structural engineers behind the Sydney Opera House, the Pompidou Centre, the Menil Collection and Lloyd's of London.'I am an engineer. Often people will call me an 'architect engineer' as a compliment. It is meant to signify a quality of engineer who is more imaginative and design-orientated than a normal engineer... To call an engineer an 'architect engineer' because he comes up with unusual or original solutions is essentially to misunderstand the role of the engineer in society.'An Engineer Imagines is a rare look into the professional creativity and philosophy of Peter Rice, who was widely acclaimed as the greatest structural engineer of his generation. He was a man who, in Renzo Piano's words, could design structures 'like a pianist who can play with his eyes shut'. Working with many of the world's greatest architects on buildings that became icons of contemporary architecture, he brought a uniquely poetic feeling to his work.Joining Ove Arup & Partners in 1956, Rice had heard that 'it was a place where an oddball could fit in.' Taking on Arup's theory of Total Design to heart, Rice writes about the role of the engineer in society, and how he himself applied his creativity to various projects. He admits he became an engineer by accident, tentatively feeling his way through a career without a natural instinct. But as he takes you through each of his projects, one-by-one, you can trace his development from graduate to veteran.Written in clear and poetic language, Rice's autobiography is perfect for those who want to better understand postwar buildings, our concrete environment, or are budding students of engineering and architecture.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building, Individual Architects & Architectural Firms, Architecture: Professional Practice, Biography: Arts & Entertainment, Architecture
- Download servers: Hotfile, Torlock, Google Drive, MEGA, FreakShare, Novafile, Uploaded, Dropbox. Compressed in TAR.GZ, ZIP, BZ2, TGZ, RAR, TZO
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 37.36 USD
- Dimensions: 180x260x24mm
- Weight: 920g
- Printed by: Batsford Ltd
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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