IASS Symposium 2007

Free - form design of shells and spatial structures, strongly influenced by modern IT resources, requires: technological innovation (know-how), to be driven by a confident conceptual design (know what) in a scientific engineering scenario (know why) addressed to re-set the design process reliability assessment due to innovation and complexity of new architectural morphologies.

In fact new architectural design trends, giving prevalence to aesthetic over the static rationality, will land to a future of generalized “free-form-buildings” (FFB) in contrast with the scientific philosophy inherited from Torroja, Maillart, Nervi and others, who designed quite sure that the observing static laws is “per se” a guarantee for achieved aesthetic results.

In the frame of the actual inter-trans and multidisciplinary design process between architecture and structural engineering, 2007 Venetian Symposium invites professionals, researchers and academics to update the “State of the Art” concerning the classic scientific and technical themes of the IASS.