| What Teachers Are Saying About Shaping Structures:
Statics
 "In Shaping
Structures: Statics, the gulf between architectural design
and structural analysis is eliminated. The graphical techniques
it teaches are both analysis and design, and not only determine
what is possible but what is ideal. The forces in a student's design
can be calculated accurately and incredibly swiftly...Options for
design modifications are made immediately apparent in the analysis
itself..."
David Whitney,
Boston Architectural Center
"I had to pinch myself to believe what was
being presented in the final review of the statics class. The students'
projects were in the finest tradition of design exploration. That
this could happen in a first semester structures class was beyond
my most fervent hopes. The students seemed greatly moved by the opportunity
to impact the structural aspect of their work in an expressive yet
knowing way."
Curt Lamb, Vice President for Education,
Boston Architectural Center
"The book reads like a novel...I
am thoroughly enjoying the new techniques...we are continually impressed
at the accuracy of the graphical solutions...I am ecstatic with the
results! "
Rob Cassan, Loyalist College, Belleville,
Ontario
"It was an eye opening and
liberating experience to use your text... "
Charlie Mitchell, University of North Carolina/Charlotte
"Regarding my use of Shaping
Structures: Statics as a course text: IT WAS EXCELLENT. The
students especially liked the CD for personal instruction outside
of the lecture, and they liked the graphics in the book....Joseph
Iano's efforts on the CD excite me no end."
Robert Taylor, Montana State University
"Teaching structures to architecture
students using graphical methods is not only fun but incredibly rewarding
for teacher AND student. Teaching students to understand structures
by using graphical methods gets them to the real thing much more
quickly than other methods. After only half a semester, students
could design and analyze structures (trusses in this case) that could
be built with a little more work on the details. All the material
in Shaping Structures was relevant...unlike many purely
analytical books..."
Robert Dermody, MIT
"Shaping Structures: Statics is
the most powerful and exciting structures textbook I have ever encountered.
I cannot help but feel that it could lead to a revolution, uniting
architectural design and structural analysis....My students who have
learned using this book understand structures on an entirely different
level than my prior students. I cannot wait to see the effect they
and those who follow have on architecture."
David Whitney, Boston Architectural Center |
