ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS

 

              ENGINEERS AND  ARCHITECTS

             Without engineers and architects, the world would be very different. Engineers make machines and build bridges, roads, and dams. Architects design buildings to make the best use of space and to look good. Both engineers and architects need to understand how to use metals, stone, and other materials to make things that are strong and work well. Changes in technology, like the coming of steam power, allow them to try out new ideas.                                 

DRAMATIC SHAPES

The jhapanese architect kenzo tange (1913)is famous for the sports stadiums he built in Tokyo for the 1964 olympics. He used modern engineering to crate huge, tentlike structures.

            SPECTACULAR  BUILDINGS

      The Chinese-american architect ieoh ming pei(1917) has created some of the most exciting buildings of the 20^th century. They include the spectacular bank of china building in hong kong and the pyramid entrance to the louver museum in paris,france.

       CREATOR OF NEW SHAPES

     The Spanish architect antoni gaudi(1852-1926) designed unusal buildings in shapes taken from nature, such as waves and dribbles of sand. He died before his famous church of the sagrada familia in Barcelona could be completed.

AMAZING FACTS

Ø  Brunel experiment with a railroad engine powered by compressed air, but he had to give up because rats kept eating the leather valves in the air pipes.

MORE GREAT ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS

HENRY FORD(1863-1974)

The founder of the American car company, ford created the assembly line used in modern factories.

FRANK L. WRIGHT(1867-1959)

This American architect designed some of the most original buildings of modern times.

ZHAN TIANYOU(1861-1919)

He built china’s first railroad, and in 1909 he finished the railroad from Beijing to zhangjiakouin.