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Horst Berger (1928-) is a structural engineer and designer known for his work with lightweight tensile architecture. After receiving a degree in Civil Engineering in 1954 from Stuttgart University in Stuttgart, Germany, he began working in 1955 at the Bridge and Special Structures Department of Wayss and Freitag in Frankfurt. In 1960, he joined Severud Associates in New York city and worked on projects such as the St. Louis Arch, Madison Square Garden, and Toronto City Hall. After forming Geiger Berger Associates in 1968 with partner David Geiger, his firm gained international recognition for its incorporation of lightweight fabric structures into permanent architectural designs. While working for Skidmore Owens and Merril, Horst Berger had the challenge of creating a 105 acre roof for the Haj Terminal the Jeddah Airport. This tensile fabric structure consisted of 210 tent units held up by pylon framing. In 1990 Horst Berger was asked to create a tensile fabric roof for the Denver International Airport. Challenges of snow loading and attaching the rigid walls to the fabric roof made it one of Berger’s toughest projects. The unique design with the roofing structure gave the terminal a more spacious layout.[1] In 1990 he became a professor at the School of Architecture of the City College of New York. [edit] Principal Works Include
[edit] References[1]Berger, H. (1996). Light Structures, Structures of LightLthe art and engineering of tensile architecture. Boston: Birkhauser. [edit] See alsoPágina espejo de la WikipediaDirectorio de Enlaces Directorio dmoz Directorio espejo dmoz Pedro Bernardo |