TY - GEN
T1 - Quintessentially billington
T2 - IASS Symposium 2019 - 60th Anniversary Symposium of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures; Structural Membranes 2019 - 9th International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures, FORM and FORCE
AU - Garlock, Maria E.Moreyra
AU - Adriaenssens, Sigrid
AU - Glisic, Branko
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2019 by Maria E. Moreyra GARLOCK, Sigrid ADRIAENSSENS, and Branko GLISIC Published by the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) with permission.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - One of the most classic courses at Princeton University (CEE262, Structures in the Urban Environment) was founded by Professor David Billington (1927-2018) in 1974. The course, based on his scholarship, argues that the best designed structures (bridges, buildings, and shells) are a work of art - structural art. The course integrates humanities with engineering through studies of cultures, people, and art as reflected in works of engineering. Professor Billington used alliterations to reinforce learning: The measures of structural art are efficiency, economy, and elegance; and the structural artist's designs evolve from imitation, to innovation, to inspiration. The authors are Princeton University faculty in who have continued teaching Billington's classic courses (imitation), enhanced it with modern pedagogical approaches (innovation), and created new classes and scholarship inspired by it (inspiration). This paper, in essence, illustrates the many ways that David Billington's legacy and scholarship continue to thrive in creative approaches that one can say are quintessentially Billington.
AB - One of the most classic courses at Princeton University (CEE262, Structures in the Urban Environment) was founded by Professor David Billington (1927-2018) in 1974. The course, based on his scholarship, argues that the best designed structures (bridges, buildings, and shells) are a work of art - structural art. The course integrates humanities with engineering through studies of cultures, people, and art as reflected in works of engineering. Professor Billington used alliterations to reinforce learning: The measures of structural art are efficiency, economy, and elegance; and the structural artist's designs evolve from imitation, to innovation, to inspiration. The authors are Princeton University faculty in who have continued teaching Billington's classic courses (imitation), enhanced it with modern pedagogical approaches (innovation), and created new classes and scholarship inspired by it (inspiration). This paper, in essence, illustrates the many ways that David Billington's legacy and scholarship continue to thrive in creative approaches that one can say are quintessentially Billington.
KW - Art
KW - Billington
KW - Engineer
KW - Pedagogy
KW - Princeton University
KW - Structures
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85102406185
T3 - IASS Symposium 2019 - 60th Anniversary Symposium of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures; Structural Membranes 2019 - 9th International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures, FORM and FORCE
SP - 275
EP - 281
BT - IASS Symposium 2019 - 60th Anniversary Symposium of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures; Structural Membranes 2019 - 9th International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures, FORM and FORCE
A2 - Lazaro, Carlos
A2 - Bletzinger, Kai-Uwe
A2 - Onate, Eugenio
PB - International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering
Y2 - 7 October 2019 through 10 October 2019
ER -