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21.7.08

ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Architectural engineering
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Architectural engineering, also known as Building Engineering, is the application of engineering principles and technology to building design and construction. Definitions of an architectural engineer may refer to:
An engineer in the structural, mechanical, electrical, construction or other engineering fields of building design and construction.
A licensed engineering professional in parts of the United States, where architectural engineering may include complete building design.[citation needed]
In informal contexts, and formally in some places, a professional synonymous with or similar to an architect. In some languages, "architect" is literally translated as "architectural engineer".
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STRUCTURAL ENGINEER, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A structural engineer is an engineering professional who practices structural engineering. Structural engineers analyze, design, plan, and research structural components and structural systems. Their work takes account mainly of technical, economic and environmental concerns, but they may also consider aesthetic and social factors.
Structural engineering is usually considered a specialty discipline within civil engineering, but it can also be studied in its own right. In the US, most practising structural engineers are currently licensed as civil engineers, but the situation varies from state to state. In the UK, most structural engineers in the building industry are members of the Institution of Structural Engineers rather than the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Typical structures designed by a structural engineer include buildings, towers, stadia and bridges. Other structures such as oil rigs, space satellites, aircraft and ships may also be designed by a structural engineer. [1] Most structural engineers are employed in the construction industry, however there are also structural engineers in the aerospace, automobile and shipbuilding industries. In the construction industry, they work closely with architects, civil engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, quantity surveyors, and construction managers.
Structural engineers ensure that buildings and bridges are built to be strong enough and stable enough to resist all appropriate structural loads (e.g., gravity, wind, snow, rain, seismic (earthquake), earth pressure, temperature, and traffic). They also design structures to be stiff enough to not deflect or vibrate beyond acceptable limits. Fatigue may be an important consideration for bridges and for aircraft design, or for other structures which experience a large number of stress cycles over their lifetime. Consideration is also given to durability of materials against possible deterioration which may impair performance over the design lifetime.
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ORIENTAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION



At 600 F Street, NW stood the OBA (Oriental Building Association) Federal Savings & Loan Association that was founded in 1861 as a "German" bank; the building, now closed, was designed by Albert Goehner. OBA remains the oldest savings and loan association in the nation and in 2003 moved a few blocks to 700 7th Street NW.
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OLD PATENT OFFICE BUILDING



As Secretary of the Interior from 1877 to 1881 under President Rutherford B. Hayes, Carl Schurz's office was located in the Patent Office Building that takes up the entire block bounded by 7th and 8th streets and F and G Streets, NW. Today, the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are housed in the building.
In 1877, around the beginning of Schurz's tenure, a fire destroyed the third floor and attic of the west and north wings. The renovations to the building were carried out by fellow German-Americans Adolf Cluss and Paul Schulze. Certainly Cluss and Schurz would have known each other well since both were actively involved in the failed 1848 revolution in Germany and both were politically active and wrote for newspapers.
As part of the renovation work, Caspar Buberl, the Bohemian-born artist known chiefly for his work on the Pension Building created the relief panels on the north wall (allegories of Fire, Electricity and Magnetism, and Water), on the south wall (Agriculture, Industry and Invention, and Mining), and roundel portraits of American inventors (Franklin, Jefferson, Robert Fulton, and Eli Whitney) in the Patent Building's model hall.
Before becoming a member of the Cabinet, Schurz already knew Washington well, his first visit here having taken place in early Spring 1854, when he found the city "rather dismal." Read Schurz's description. In 1865-1866, just after the Civil War, Schurz was a reporter for the New York Tribune, whose Washington Office was located at "470 14th Street West" according to the 1866 City Directory. This was before Washington's street numbering system changed in 1869. The corresponding address became 515 14th St NW. The building is no longer standing.
Elected US Senator from Missouri in November 1868, Carl Schurz took office in March 1869 and moved back to Washington. In 1872, he lived at 1349 L Street NW and in 1874, the City Directory lists him as living at 826 14th Street NW. Neither building remains standing today.
While Secretary of the Interior, Schurz resided at 1719 H St NW, in a house that no longer exists.
Carl Schurz remains an important figure in Germany still today. In Liblar, Schurz's home town, just a few miles from Cologne, stands the castle where the future revolutionary and German-American journalist and statesman was born in 1829. The town's "Carl-Schurz-Kreis" has collected many materials about its most famous son. Not surprisingly, the town's school is named after him today. Bonn, the Federal Republic of Germany's first capital, also boasts a major local school with Schurz's name: the Carl-Schurz-Realschule, located at Albertus-Magnus-Str. 21. More about Schurz is available from a number of websites.
Carl Schurz died in New York in 1906.
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OBA BUILDING AT 6 F DESIGNED BY GERMAN ARCHITECT ALBERT GOEHNER



At 600 F Street, NW, stood the OBA (Oriental Building Association) Federal Savings & Loan Association that was founded in 1861 as a "German" bank; the building, now closed, was designed by Albert Goehner.

Goehner also designed the landmark-designated building at 423–425 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, which originally built in 1902 as the Kingman, the name later was changed to the President Monroe Apartment Building.

OBA remains the oldest savings and loan association in the nation and in 2003 moved a few blocks to 700 7th Street NW. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

As part of a larger fraternal organization, the association allowed individuals and small businesses in this German dominated neighborhood to pool resources and offer credit. The OBA exemplifies the historical importance of the District's immigrant self-help organizations and business relationships.

I began photographing the OBA Building in late summer 2004, focusing more on the Banana Republic billboard displays pasted to the west side of the building, facing the MCI Center. And, if my photographic memory and collection is correct, it was in November 2004 that the renovation process began. See my Time Changes project which was launched in February 2005 that depicts a photo taken on Veterans Day, 11 November 2004, of the OBA Building at the beginning stages of its redevelopment.
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16.7.08

ROMAN ARCHITECTURE

THE Roman fact of Roman architecture was in stabilityof structure dissociate from form and from any de­fined structural system. It was the stability of rigidity, ofinertia--of concrete. Rome realized the possibilities of thismaterial and made its employment general throughout theempire. That she should do so was characteristic, and therewas nothing better for her engineering purposes. It wascheap in itself and in the unskilled labor which could handleit; it was flexible--plastic--and might be turned to manyuses; above all, it was solid. Form was not inherent in it,but any form might be modeled from it by pouring it intothe desired mould. It had the strength which Rome re­spected, a strength that might underlie any shaping thatRome fancied.

From: A Background to Architecture
Book by Seward Hume Rathbun; Yale Unviersity Press, 1926. 395 pgs.
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14.7.08

An Architect or Structural Engineer can be an Internet Marketer???

An Architect or Structural Engineer can be an Internet Marketer??? Yes, but an Architect or Structural Engineer must learn before. If you're an Indonesian and you an Architect or a Structural Engineer and want the other job, you can learn about Internet Marketing at Asian Brain IMC. An Architect or a Structural Engineer can get simple side job too with data entry job. They can sign up at Xclix or bux.to or clixsense. If you fresh graduate and don't have job, we suggest to look for side job, you can try to learn with Asian Brain IMC. ...Read More...

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