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The first comprehensive tribute to Louis Kahn's and Moshe Safdie's structural engineer TheEstonian-American civil engineer August Komendant (1906–1992) workedwith numerous famous architects and engineers on several of the 20thcentury’s most iconic buildings. Concrete was Komendant’spassion through decades. He used his expertise in designing structuresas different as the Kadriorg Stadium grandstand in Tallinn, Estonia(Elmar Lohk, 1938), the Habitat ’67 experimental housing complex inMontréal, Canada (Moshe Safdie, 1967) and the Kimbell Art Museum in FortWorth, Texas, USA (Louis I. Kahn, 1972). Komendant combinedtechnical expertise with a keen sense of as an engineer, hevalued the timeless and enduring qualities of architecture. He knew thatmiracles require more than spreadsheets and a budget – the creativeimpulse is essential.
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Miracles in Concrete, Estonian Museum of Architecture
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- 2022
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