An Engineering Magician, Then (Presto) HeÂs an Architect
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Cecil Balmond taught architects to defy gravity. Can a master engineer defy expectation?
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The med-tech firm impresses on many levels.
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Italy's De Benedetti dynasty is making a comeback. High-flying corporate raider Carlo De Benedetti, dubbed "the engineer," once ranked as a titan of Italian industry alongside Gianni Agnelli.
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Architects develop shape-shifting structures that morph in response to changing weather, fluctuating temperatures and differing uses. Imagine a skyscraper that braces itself in gusty winds, or a house that shakes the snow from its roof. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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An engineer is being held for impersonating a prince on Facebook.
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A unicyclist, a portrait artist and a Don King lookalike enlivened the security confab's booth landscape.
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Dr. MacCready was an awesomely accomplished inventor who studied circling hawks and vultures to figure out how to realize the loftiest dream of Leonardo da Vinci â inventing a human-powered flying machine.
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The photograph, even today, arrests the eye and titillates the mind. It's from the early 20th century, and the young man it shows -- tipping back on the rear legs of his chair -- is using his own legs, splayed in front of him, as a counterbalance.
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Deganit Shemy has the mind of an engineer with a strong background in psychology and gender studies, to judge by âIodine.â
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For Rem Koolhaas, designer of the soaring CCTV tower in Beijing, a commission with ties to his student days.
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Black sweater or no, some architects find they can channel their idealism into real-world projects.
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A design for a futuristic glass building with a giant plasma video screen landed Cesar Pelli the job as architect for the new science center at Adriaen&#39;s Landing.
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Once the cutting-edge materials of engineering were steel girders, then transistors. And next, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is gambling, it will be DNA and cells -- the stuff of life.
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MIT's Martin Culpepper shows how to build simple machines that move with nanometer precision.
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Now that Donald Norman and Lab readers have analyzed the water faucets in the office building of the future, let us contemplate an even more important topic: the elevators. Dr. Norman, the Northwestern cognitive scientist and illustrious techno-critic, had no trouble dealing with the elevators in the New York Times new headquarters, but that's because [...].
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- A design for a futuristic glass building with a giant plasma video screen landed Cesar Pelli the job as architect for the new science center at Adriaen&#39;s Landing.
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Neurosis has its Masonic tendencies. Thereâs an obsession with craft, and with mysticism â or at least the puniness of manâs will against larger forces.