【Lecture 04.07.2025】 Working Structure: Actors and Auteurs
Release time:2025-06-30



Lecture Introduction


What is the role of the structural engineer in collaborations with architects and artists? Notable structural engineers from Ove Arup to Fazlur Khan and Peter Rice have acted sometime as brilliant technician and other times as creative partners. What critical concepts that can account for the creative contributions of the actors in key works of architecture? And what civic roles do engineers play in addressing the pressing needs of cities both in the climate crisis but also in the case of transformative events such as 9-11? This talk will review these questions from the perspective of the speaker’s participation in recent projects with architects and artists and design research to address the challenges of coastal resilience and adaptation.


Lecturer

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Guy Nordenson

Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member of the National Academy of Engineering, Professor of Architecture and Structural Engineering, School of Architecture, Princeton University

Guy Nordenson is a structural engineer and professor of architecture at Princeton. He was the engineer for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC, The Museum of Modern Art (2004), Linked Hybrid (Beijing), the Museum of Fine Arts and Menil Drawing Institute in Houston TX and 40 other museums. He oversaw the design and engineering of David Hammons’ Day’s End sculpture in the Hudson River. Nordenson is the author of books on climate adaptation and engineering design. He was a Commissioner of the NYC Public Design Commission (2006-2016) and a member of the NYC Panel on Climate Change. He was elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009) and the National Academy of Engineering (2022) “for structural engineering and leadership in promoting structures as art and culture.”


主持人/Moderator


袁烽 教授 

同济大学建筑与城市规划学院 副院长

Prof. Philip F. Yuan

Associate Dean of the CAUP, Professor in Architectural Intelligence, Tongji

致辞/Guest Speaker


王兰 教授

同济大学建筑与城市规划学院 院长

Prof. WANG Lan

Dean of the CAUP, Chair Professor in Healthy Cities, Tongji

虞终军 教高

同济大学建筑设计研究院(集团)有限公司副总工程师

Prof. YU Zhongjun, Deputy Chief Engineer of the TJAD, Tongji




讲座时间/Time

2025/07/04 周五 13:30

04 JULY 2025 FRIDAY 13:30


讲座地点/Venue

同济大学建筑设计研究院(集团)有限公司 一楼多功能厅

Lecture Hall, Tongji Architectural Design (Group) CO., LTD.