Monday, May 18, 2009

Solid Void? Oxymoron or the creative brain-child of a structural engineer. An art installation by this name is currently on display at the Graham Foundation in Chicago (see
http://www.grahamfoundation.org/). The piece was envisioned by Cecil Balmond, a structural engineer with ARUP. Balmond is regarded as one of the most creative structural engineers in the world, and this is evidenced by his structures. Perhaps the most famous is the CCTV building being construction in Beijing (see http://www.cctv.com/newSiteProgram/en/project_info.htm). The curators of the Louisiana modern art museum in Denmark found his work so creative that in 2007 they commissioned an entire show exploring the creations of the structural engineer.

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