Vesper No. 8 | Vesper | Spring-Summer 2023
Paolo Foraboschi
Suggestions for a
New Epistemology of Structural Engineering
Keywords
fake certainties, Italian engineering, limits of science, song of sirens,
software unsustainable emptiness
The tutorial makes a parallelism between structural engineering of today
and in the past. First, the article analyzes how the most important principles
that have characterized modern physics affect structural engineering. Then, the
author questions how the great structural engineers would be if they lived and
worked now and attempts at offering an answer. Finally, the author gives his
suggestion about what changes must be made in the relationship between society
and engineers of today in order for the latter to have the same tremendous
impact on the world as they did in the past.
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