Inhabited bridges: Art and science are architects afraid of designing bridges?

Abstract

This paper discusses the aspects of development of the civil engineering and architectural vocation and the need for re-considering some of the problems they are facing; all this primarily from the aspect of integration of knowledge in the IT and post-IT (IOT) era, which is in desperate need for substantial changes in terms of education, design and global consideration of issues addressed, or at least have to be addressed, by our occupations, if they choose to survive in the new IT environment and if they are competitive in global trends. Artistic and economic approaches complement technical aspects of designing inhabited bridges. Additionally, the pre-IT knowledge about designing and building bridges in urban framework should be abandoned. Generally, the problems should be considered synergistically and addressed in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary ways.

Keywords

• civil engineering
• architecture
• it
• education
• return on investment
• bridges
• inhabited bridges
• synergy