Structures by Design: Thinking, Making, Breaking Introduction

This video introduces the fundamental concepts discussed throughout the book, Structures by Design (SxD). Historical examples are used to illustrate the ways designers have envisioned, created, tested, and innovated as they created structural designs that are integrated with architecture. The principles of the design process (Thinking, Making, and Breaking) are explained in ways that connect building structures to architectural design--including examples from the award-winning structural design sequence at Iowa State University created by Assoc. Prof. Rob Whitehead