Preface [to Structures and Architecture. A viable urban perspective?]

Abstract

[Excerpt] The launch of the first edition of ICSA, The International Conference on Structures and Architecture in 2010 was driven by the ambition to cultivate a serious, strong, and open community for nurturing the synergetic potentials of architecture and structural engineering towards a betterment of the built environment. With the first three editions of ICSA held in the formative historical setting of Guimarães in 2010, 2013, and 2016, this community has grown a solid foundation thanks to a continuously expanding core group of highly committed colleagues with a background in architecture and/or structural engineering. The cohesiveness of this group, and its dynamic ability to attract new talents in a constant search for new grounds and directions intersecting structures and architecture, has progressively made ICSA become the world’s leading event bridging the gap between structures and architecture. [...]