but can an artchitect build his own designs or he has to leave it for a structral engineer?
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Good Architects know enough structural engineering and mechanical engineering to do the job, often better.
Many engineering schools take the approach (sadly) of:
"What can we take out and still make it stand."
The best Architects in the world make buildings that stand for 6,000 years or more.
Structual engineers are the guys who didn't condem that bridge in Minnesota based upon SAMPLING a few bolts.
Building code people were responsible for apartment buildings of 3 stories that become 1 story in Los Angeles after the Earth quake.
A true Architect puts MORE into a building than is needed because they want it to remain as their Tashma Hall and you don't get that if a 5.6 happens a year after it's finished.
Now we're talking a TRUE architect vs a hack.
An Architect is an extension of a furniture builder.
Jesus built furnature. He often did it without nails and it held together foreever.
When the HACKS come in and use PRESS BOARD instead of hard word and SCREWS instead of Dove Tail joints, that's when you have problems.
MASS PRODUCED things.
The head Architect at the complex I worked in told me a lot about 'tilt up walls' and called them amazing.
Architects deal with more of the design, the look and layout of a building, a strucutral engineer makes it work.
An architect can do some "structural" engineering on some types of buildings.
An Architect of commercial buildings works with a structural engineer while designing buildings
An architect designs a building and makes it attractive and functional. A structural engineer ensures its still standing in ten years. Engineers study a lot more physics and materials science while architects involve themselves more in aesthetics. An architect with no engineering training would not build his own designs. He would design a building and then take it to the engineer for "editing" determining feasibility of the design with issues of balance, load bearing walls, and materials. This isn't to say that architects don't have rudimentary knowledge of engineering, they do and its critical in their jobs so that their designs are realistic, but they usually require engineering support for actual building. A nice way to look at it is architects are artists, engineers are scientists.
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